Southampton Village, NY Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Section 77-3A(2) of the Southampton Village Code is the village's nighttime standard. From 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., no person may create or cause to be emitted any noise that, measured at or beyond any lot line of the property generating it in a residential district, exceeds 50 dBA, or that exceeds the octave band limits printed for that period. Commercial districts get a higher night figure of 55 dBA under § 77-3B(2). The daytime figures between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. are 65 dBA residential and 70 dBA commercial.

Section 77-4A(1) ties equipment use to the same clock. The intermittent or occasional use between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. of homeowner's light residential outdoor equipment, such as lawn mowers, or commercial service equipment, such as chain saws, is excepted from § 77-3 if it complies with the rest of the chapter. Outside those hours the exception does not apply. Leaf blowers fall back under § 77-3 from Memorial Day through Labor Day except for necessary cleanup after a major storm, and § 78-4 now bans gas-powered leaf blowers outright apart from emergency response during a state of emergency.

Construction has its own schedule. Section 77-4A(2) excepts construction between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, never on public holidays, and § 78-4B(1) prohibits construction work and related deliveries at all times on Sunday and on federal and state holidays. Property maintenance and landscaping follow the same weekday and Saturday hours under § 78-4B(2). Pile driving is barred on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from Memorial Day through Labor Day under § 77-2C.

Exceptions in § 77-4A include church bells, aircraft flight operations, public celebrations, and the activities of any fire department or ambulance squad.