Construction hours in Licking County, OH — sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances — set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
Newark only restricts construction noise between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., when powered construction, drilling, and demolition equipment can't create a disturbance across a residential line. Daytime work, including weekends, is otherwise unrestricted. Emergency utility work is exempt.
Unlike cities with tight weekday-only windows, Newark's noise ordinance (Chapter 634.04) prohibits construction, drilling, and demolition equipment only between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. where it creates a noise disturbance across a residential property boundary. That leaves daytime and weekend work permissible. Emergency work by public-service utilities, and jobs covered by a special variance from the Director of Public Safety, are exempt. Domestic power tools fall under a separate provision. In unincorporated townships there is no construction-hours ordinance, though the state disorderly-conduct law still reaches genuinely unreasonable noise. Check Heath, Pataskala, or Granville separately if your site sits inside those limits.
Nighttime construction noise in Newark is a minor misdemeanor on a first offense, rising to a fourth-degree misdemeanor for repeats, with each day treated as a separate offense.
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