Construction hours in Marion County, OR — sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances — set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
In Salem it is unlawful to construct, demolish, alter, excavate or repair buildings, streets or utility lines between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Marion County exempts daytime commercial construction from its dB table but bars nighttime construction noise.
Salem Revised Code 93.020(d) lists construction as a noise disturbance per se: building, street, sidewalk, driveway, sewer and utility-line work is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. In unincorporated Marion County within the Salem-Keizer UGB, MCC 8.45.060(E)(3)(c) states daytime sound levels 'do not apply to sounds produced in commercial construction activity,' so daytime construction is generally allowed, but nighttime construction noise still triggers the plainly-audible and dB limits. Impact equipment such as pile drivers and pneumatic hammers is separately barred 10 p.m.–7 a.m. under SRC 93.020(j).
A Salem construction-noise violation is an infraction (misdemeanor if repeated within six months). County violations are Class A violations under ORS Chapter 153.
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