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It is based on the noise disturbance from drag racing and tire squealing on public rights-of-way. Illinois (625 ILCS 5/11-505) prohibits such activities. Hammond, IN (Section 6.2.14) prohibits such activity if it creates a noise disturbance.
Loud music and barking dogs were the leading causes of noise complaints made by a city's residents about their neighbours in the past year. More than 160 people were the subject of enforcement ...
In 2022, locals called police about 5,500 times because of noise in their neighborhoods. That's one call every 95 minutes, and at least 15 calls a day.
One downtown resident submitted a complaint to 311, saying they'd lived there only two months before nighttime noise from vehicles became overwhelming.
A steel mill operated by U.S. Steel was the possible cause, but officials stated that no new equipment had been installed or activated around the time that the noise became noticeable. When the blast furnaces were deactivated in April 2020, the noise went away as well. [13] [14]
The Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 is a statute of the United States initiating a federal program of regulating noise pollution with the intent of ...
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Annoyance effects of noise are minimally affected by demographics, but fear of the noise source and sensitivity to noise both strongly affect the 'annoyance' of a noise. [42] Sound levels as low as 40 dB(A) can generate noise complaints [43] and the lower threshold for noise producing sleep disturbance is 45 dB(A) or lower. [44]