Stonecrest, GA Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)
Construction hours in Stonecrest, GA, sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances, set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
Key Facts
- Weekday hours
- 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday hours
- 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Sundays/holidays
- Prohibited except genuine emergencies
- Covers
- Construction, demolition and deliveries
- First-offense fine
- $200.00 minimum, Sec. 18-70
Summary
In the City of Stonecrest, construction and demolition work in residential areas is confined to set hours. Sec. 18-64(d) allows it only from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and bars it entirely on Sundays and six named holidays unless an emergency puts people or property at risk.
(d)Construction and demolition activity. Construction and demolition activity or deliveries shall only be performed between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on weekdays, or between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays. There shall be no construction or demolition activity or deliveries on Sundays or New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Memorial Day, July 4, or Labor Day unless such activity arises from an emergency which puts the site or neighboring property owners and their property at risk of harm or loss.
Full Breakdown
The hours rule sits in Sec. 18-64, the residential-area companion to the article's overnight sound standard, and subsection (a) confirms that during the overnight window the Sec. 18-65 sound-level test applies instead. Outside that window, subsection (d) does not measure decibels at all; it is a pure scheduling rule that reaches both "construction or demolition activity" and "deliveries" in the same sentence, since job-site trucks and material drops are treated as the same disturbance as hammering, sawing, or paving. Weekday work is confined to a 12-hour window, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturday work is compressed further to 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., nine hours.
Sunday work is prohibited outright, as is work on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Memorial Day, July 4, and Labor Day, with a single carve-out: activity that "arises from an emergency which puts the site or neighboring property owners and their property at risk of harm or loss." The definitions section, Sec. 18-62, folds construction sound (hammering, nailing, drilling, sawing, paving) into the article's broad definition of "sound," so a contractor working outside the permitted window is not shielded by any equipment-specific exclusion the way an air conditioner or pool filter would be.
Enforcement runs through the same code enforcement officers named in Sec. 18-67, who may measure sound at the property line under Sec. 18-68 procedures, and a builder facing an unusual hardship can apply to the Community Development Department for a special variance under Sec. 18-69 rather than simply work off-hours.
Violations & Fines
A contractor or property owner cited for off-hours construction or demolition noise faces the article's standard penalty ladder under Sec. 18-70: a minimum $200.00 fine for a first conviction, $500.00 for a second within 12 months, and $1,000.00 for a third within 24 months, plus a possible court order requiring immediate abatement of the offending activity under Sec. 18-70(b). Each day of off-hours work can be charged separately.
Frequently Asked Questions
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