Anderson County, SC Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

Section 24-169(f) draws a line around when construction noise gets a pass from the county's decibel caps. , noises from construction activities are exempt from the entire noise performance-standards division, meaning a contractor running heavy equipment, framing, or site work during that fifteen-hour window doesn't have to keep sound under the 74/69 dBA nonresidential or 70/65 dBA residential limits set in Table 1. The exemption defines construction activity broadly: any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration, or similar activity, plus any equipment testing associated with it.

window, so construction noise outside those hours isn't named separately, but it loses its exemption and falls back under the ordinary Table 1 limits (69 dBA at a nonresidential lot line, 65 dBA at a residential lot line overnight), plus the adjustments in § 24-169(c) through (e) for impulsive or repetitive sound. , where allowed by state law, showing the county treats different construction impacts with different clocks rather than one blanket carve-out.