Perth Amboy, NJ Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Article II of Chapter 304 of the Perth Amboy City Code, titled Sound Advertising from Aircraft, was adopted on October 3, 1951 as Ord. No. C-448 by the governing body of the City of Perth Amboy. Section 304-6 is a flat prohibition: no person shall operate or cause to be operated any aircraft for any purpose in or over the City of Perth Amboy with sound-amplifying equipment in operation. The words "for any purpose" matter, because the section is not limited to commercial advertising.

The definitions in § 304-5 set the reach. "Aircraft" means any contrivance used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air, and the code says the word includes helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons. "Sound-amplifying equipment" means any machine or device for the amplification of music, the human voice or any other noise or sound. The definition carves out warning devices on authorized emergency aircraft and any horns or other warning device used only for traffic safety purposes. "Person" covers firms, corporations, associations, clubs, partnerships and societies, and because the section reaches anyone who operates "or cause[s] to be operated" the aircraft, a business that arranges the flight is as exposed as the pilot.

Read the section for what it covers. It is written around amplification equipment in operation on an aircraft, meaning sound broadcast from the air. Article II prints no decibel figure and no curfew hour for aircraft. Ground-level amplified sound from vehicles is handled by the sound truck rules earlier in the same chapter, where § 304-4.1 sets a fee of $25 per day for any sound truck operating in the city. Complaints about loud, unnecessary or unusual noise from other sources fall under Article III, which begins with the general prohibition in § 304-9.