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State law prohibits retail sale of liquor and wine between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and beer between midnight and 6:00 a.m. [7] [8] State law allows local municipalities to further restrict retail sales of alcohol, or ban the issuance of retail liquor licenses altogether. [9] Local ordinances often prohibit retail beer sale after 9:00 p.m.
Noise regulation includes statutes or guidelines relating to sound transmission established by national, state or provincial and municipal levels of government. After the watershed passage of the United States Noise Control Act of 1972, [2] other local and state governments passed further regulations.
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 protecting human health and minimizing annoyance of noise to the general public.
Aug. 13—Members of the Oversight Committee learned that the city's noise ordinance is virtually unenforceable, a fact which residents have long decried as they struggle to live with loud ...
Groups concerned about Wisconsin lakes asked the DNR to make it easier for municipalities to apply for ordinances restricting wake-enhanced boating.
The board voted to allow amplified music in its 2 commercial districts M-Th from 5-8 p.m., Fri. and Sat. from noon to 10 p.m., and Sun. from 1-6 p.m.
Enacted three miscegenation laws between 1809 and 1913, and a 1952 statute that required adoption petitions to state the race of both the petitioner and child. A 1913 miscegenation law broadened the list of races unacceptable as marriage partners for whites to include persons belonging to the "African, Korean, Malayan, or Mongolian race."
A nuisance ordinance, also referred to as a crime-free ordinance or a disorderly house ordinance, is a local law usually passed on the town, city, or municipality level of government that aims to legally punish both landlords and tenants for crimes that occur on a property or in a neighborhood.