Construction hours in Lane County, OR — sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances — set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
Lane County's noise ordinance does not set fixed construction hours. Noise 'caused by commercial, industrial, agricultural, timber harvesting, utility or construction organizations or workers during their normal operations' is expressly exempt from LC 6.225. Individual cities set their own construction-hour limits.
Under LC 6.225.015(F), the county noise standards 'do not apply to' construction and similar commercial/industrial operations during normal work. So the unincorporated county has no county-wide construction-hour cutoff. Note that domestic power tools such as drills, chain saws, lawn mowers and hammers ARE regulated, but only between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. (LC 6.225.005). If construction disturbs you inside city limits, the city's code governs; Eugene, for example, restricts nighttime construction noise. Zoning and building-permit conditions may also impose hours on a specific project.
Because construction is exempt from LC 6.225, enforcement typically runs through permit conditions or, in cities, the local construction-hours ordinance.
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