Cumberland County has no industrial-noise ordinance. Industrial and stationary-source noise is regulated by municipal performance standards in each of the 28 cities and towns under Maine home-rule authority (Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 30-A § 3001), with Maine DEP enforcing site-license noise conditions under 38 MRS § 484.
Cumberland County does not zone and does not publish a noise code. Industrial noise within the county is reached three ways: (1) municipal performance-standard ordinances in the host town (e.g., Portland Code Chapter 17, South Portland Code Chapter 24-A, Westbrook Code Chapter 16) — these typically set daytime/nighttime dB(A) limits at the property line of the receiving residential zone; (2) Maine Department of Environmental Protection site-location-of-development permits issued under Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 38 § 484, which can impose facility-specific noise conditions and reference DEP Chapter 375.10 (Control of Noise); and (3) the state disorderly-conduct statute Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 17-A § 501-A when law-enforcement responds.
Enforcement is municipal — fines and cease-and-desist orders run through each town's code-enforcement officer. DEP can issue administrative consent agreements and civil penalties under tit. 38 § 349 for violations of site-license noise conditions (up to $10,000/day for major violations). No county-level penalty applies.
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