Irondequoit, NY Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

The Noise Ordinance of the Town of Irondequoit, Chapter 160, prohibits excessive noise under § 160-4 and defines it in § 160-3 as any sound which endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals or annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivity. Among the standards for judging a situation, § 160-4B lists the proximity of the noise to residential sleeping facilities, the time of the day or night, the duration, and whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent or constant.

The fixed windows come from the activity sections. Section 160-15 bars operating machinery, equipment, a pump, fan, air-conditioning apparatus, lawn mower or similar mechanical device that creates excessive noise at the property line between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. Section 160-16 applies the same hours to repairing, rebuilding or testing a motor vehicle in a residential area of the Town. Section 160-10 bars construction activities creating excessive noise at the property limits between 10:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next, on any day of the week.

The construction window has an exit. The Commissioner of Public Works/Superintendent of Highways grants a variance on written application for an initial period not to exceed 14 calendar days, renewable in periods of not more than 14 calendar days while the necessity continues, and the variance must be posted at the site. Emergency abatement work can proceed for up to 72 hours before a variance is required.

Sound from radios, instruments and similar devices has its own nighttime test in § 160-6, audibility beyond the property line from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., and § 160-5 bars ice cream vehicle bells between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. Section 160-17 forbids keeping an animal or bird that makes excessive noise, with no hour attached.