Hamburg Village, NY Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

The Village of Hamburg handles construction noise in Article II of its Noise Ordinance, Chapter 164, adopted by the Board of Trustees. Section 164-10 is titled Construction during nighttime hours. During nighttime hours it is unlawful for any person within a residential zone, or within 500 feet of a residential zone, to operate construction equipment or perform any outside construction or repair work so as to create noise. The code gives examples of covered equipment: any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, derrick or steam or electric hoist, and the list is not exclusive.

Section 164-3 fixes the clock. Nighttime hours are the hours between 10:00 p.m., local time, on any day and 7:00 a.m. on the following day. Daytime hours are the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. The 500 foot reach matters in the Village of Hamburg because a job on a commercial lot near a residential zone is covered by the same night ban as a job inside the zone.

The ordinance builds in a warning step. Any designated official of the Village of Hamburg gives a verbal warning that the violation exists and of the penalties that result if the violation continues.

Section 164-10(B) carves out two kinds of work. Work of an emergency nature is not prohibited, and the code defines emergency work as work made necessary to restore property to a safe condition following a public calamity or work necessary to protect persons or property from an imminent exposure to danger. Work of a domestic nature on buildings, structures or projects undertaken by a person residing in the premises is also not prohibited, but a domestic power tool such as a saw, sander, grinder or lawn and garden tool used outdoors at night cannot cause noise inside a residential building or across a residential property boundary that interferes with comfort, repose, health or safety, or at 25 feet or more from the source.

Daytime construction is not exempt from Chapter 164. Section 164-9 names construction equipment among the machinery that cannot be operated so as to create unreasonable noise, and § 164-14 bars any permit for a sound source that will operate during nighttime hours.