Noise from Specific Sources in New York (2026)

Air-conditioning and air-handling units in the Town of Babylon can't send more than 55 dB(A) across a residential…

Running an air-conditioning unit, pump, fan, or other mechanical device so it creates a noise disturbance above Table…

Hempstead treats a noisy air-conditioning unit the same as any other mechanical nuisance: § 144-3(N) of the…

Mount Vernon caps continuous noise crossing the property line from any air-conditioning or air-handling device in…

New Rochelle limits air-conditioning and air-handling noise to 55 db(A) once it crosses into a residential…

New York City limits sound from air conditioners, fans, pumps and cooling towers to 42 dB(A) inside a neighbor's…

North Hempstead restricts air-conditioning, refrigeration and other commercial equipment from running loudly enough to…

Syracuse's Property Conservation Code requires every piece of building equipment, including air conditioning, heating…

Ground-based air-conditioning and heating equipment on new downtown Yonkers buildings can only go in the rear or…

Air conditioners and other mechanical devices that annoy or disturb a reasonable person violate Buffalo's noise…

Rochester's excessive-noise ordinance flatly exempts air conditioners from its property-line noise thresholds, so a…

Six or more noise, drunkenness, or disruptive-behavior complaints against a restaurant, bar, or tavern in twelve months…

Yonkers' Zoning Ordinance imposes noise-containment standards on cabarets and nightclubs beyond the general Chapter 66…

Restaurants, bars, cafes, discotheques and dance halls in the Town of Babylon can't let sound devices exceed 95 dB(A)…

Brookhaven's noise code lets bars, restaurants and nightclubs play live bands or recorded music on commercial property…

A bar, club, or other place of public entertainment in Cheektowaga cannot run a loudspeaker above 90 dB(A) without…

In Clarkstown's Hamlet Center Districts covering Congers, Valley Cottage and West Nyack, restaurants, bars, taverns…

Glen Cove's noise code reaches bars and nightclubs directly: City Code Section 196-4(P) bans business noise, including…

Greenburgh's Cabaret Law bars any licensed cabaret from running amplified entertainment intense enough to disturb the…

Mount Vernon bans any restaurant, bar, cafe, discotheque or dance hall from running sound at or above 95 db(A) for more…

Downtown Caroline Street bars and clubs sit in nonresidential zoning, where amplified music is capped at 85 dBA Sunday…

Schenectady bars restaurants, taverns, bars, nightclubs and discos from letting music or noise carry into nearby homes…

Bars, clubs and other commercial establishments in Smithtown cannot let music carry across a property line between…

Mount Vernon bars auto shops from testing car alarms within 100 feet of a residential zoning district by sounding them…

A car alarm that keeps blaring is a code violation in Amherst. Amherst Code § 138-5H requires any audible motor vehicle…

Brookhaven exempts vehicle and building burglar alarms from its Table I sound limits, but only if the alarm shuts…

Security alarms, horns, and other auditory signaling devices on vehicles or stationary equipment may not sound for more…

Cheektowaga's noise law requires any exterior alarm on a building or motor vehicle to shut off within 15 minutes of…

A car alarm that keeps sounding for more than five minutes after it goes off violates Colonie's noise code, though the…

The Town Code has no separate car-alarm section, but its general audible-alarm rule at Town Code § 144-3O reaches any…

New York City requires any audible car alarm to automatically shut off within three minutes of activation, and bans…

North Hempstead requires every motor vehicle burglar alarm to shut off automatically within 20 minutes of activation…

Oyster Bay requires every exterior burglar alarm and motor vehicle burglar alarm to shut itself off automatically…

Syracuse bans audible burglar alarms, including car alarms, that will not shut off on their own. Under the Noise…

Yonkers City Code § 66-4E bars a motor vehicle's exterior alarm from sounding more than five minutes continuously or 10…

A burglar alarm on a vehicle or building in Smithtown must shut off within 15 minutes of activation and cannot run more…

Albany's Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance bars running power equipment or generators in residential zoning…

Clarkstown treats generator noise as unnecessary noise under Town Code Chapter 205 when a generator runs outside…

Greenburgh bars exhaust noise from any stationary or mobile internal-combustion engine, including generators, that…

New Rochelle caps outdoor emergency generators and energy-generation systems in residential districts at 70 db(A)…

New York City treats generator exhaust as a regulated noise source: any device, generators included, whose exhaust…

Smithtown bars running a generator when there is no storm or other emergency power outage, except for routine testing…

Huntington doesn't set a generator decibel limit, but its site plan design standards direct the Planning Board to…

Rochester's citywide noise ordinance bars "excessive noise" audible beyond a property line at night or 50 feet away by…

Yonkers City Code § 66-6J exempts emergency generators used during a power failure from Chapter 66's noise disturbance…

Albany's zoning code caps home-business delivery truck noise to 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. and bars any home occupation that…

Amherst's noise code bars idling trucks over 10,000 pounds GVWR near homes overnight. Under Town Code § 138-5I, running…

The Town of Babylon bans noisy loading and unloading of boxes, crates and containers between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. whenever…

Brookhaven bans loud loading and unloading work near homes overnight: § 50-6B(4) prohibits handling boxes, containers…

Loading or unloading materials, equipment, garbage cans, bales, boxes, crates, or containers so loudly that it creates…

Code of the Town of Islip § 35-3H makes it a violation to load or unload any vehicle, boat, barge or train, or to open…

Mount Vernon's noise ordinance specifically outlaws unreasonably loud loading and unloading noise, including slamming…

North Hempstead bars loading, unloading, and handling of boxes, crates, containers and building materials between 10:00…

Smithtown bars loud loading and unloading that creates a noise disturbance, and separately bars idling a heavy truck…

Loading and unloading boxes, crates, containers or drums between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is a noise-code violation in…

Rochester's Noise chapter singles out loading and unloading for its own rule: City Code § 75-13 bars excessive noise…

New York City caps low-frequency bass from commercial music at 45 decibels in one-third octave bands between 63 and 500…

The City of Oneida caps low-frequency noise, including bass from stereos and sound systems, at fixed octave-band sound…

Syracuse's Noise Control Ordinance targets loud car stereos and bass speakers directly. Section 40-16 bars any radio…