Rock Hill, SC Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

(3) Building operations. In conducting any building operations between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., to operate or use any piledrivers, steam shovels, pneumatic hammers, derricks, steam or electric hoists or other apparatus, the use of which is attended with loud or unusual noise, in any block in which more than half of the buildings on either side of the street are used exclusively for residence purposes, except by permission from the council. ... e. Sound produced by the erection, excavation, construction, demolition, alteration or repair work, or the permitting or causing thereof, of any building or other structure, or the operation or the permitting or causing the operation of any tools or equipment used in such activity conducted between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. and which activity did not produce a sound exceeding 75 dB(A) when measured from the nearest residential property where the sound is being received;