Erie County, New York has no countywide outdoor-music ordinance. Live and amplified outdoor music is regulated by each town or city, usually through a noise code plus a special-event or assembly permit. County parks may set their own event conditions for gatherings on county land.
There is no Erie County outdoor-music or live-entertainment noise law in the county local laws index. Outdoor music at bars, patios, festivals, and backyard events is regulated by the municipality where it occurs. Buffalo controls outdoor amplified and live music under Chapter 293 and through special-event permitting; Cheektowaga's Chapter 166 (Noise) applies to loudspeakers and performance sound with tighter night limits; other towns set conditions in their noise or entertainment-permit chapters. Festivals on municipal property generally need a special-event or mass-gathering permit fixing an end time and noise conditions. Events on Erie County park land are administered by the county parks department, which can attach noise conditions to a facility-use permit, but that is a permit condition, not an ordinance.
No county outdoor-music fine exists as a general ordinance. Penalties come from the municipal noise code or from breach of a special-event permit's noise conditions, which can bring fines or permit revocation. A Penal Law 240.20 violation adds jail exposure.
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