City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0707

• File #: 11-0707
• Version: 0
• Name: Noise Regulations - Entertainment and Commercial Noise
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 5/23/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Noise Regulations - Entertainment and Commercial Noise FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain noise or other sounds that can be heard within any part of a dwelling, including a multiple-family dwelling, hotel, motel, boarding house, apartment hotel, apartment building, rooming house, or other place of lodging, located more than 50 feet from the property or vehicle in which the source of the sound is located.
• Sponsors: William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran
• Indexes: Commercial, Entertainment, Noise, Regulation

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/26/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/26/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/26/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/26/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/23/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
5/23/2011	0	City Council

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Cole


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Noise Regulations - Entertainment and Commercial Noise

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain noise or other sounds that can be heard within any part of a dwelling, including a multiple-family dwelling, hotel, motel, boarding house, apartment hotel, apartment building, rooming house, or other place of lodging, located more than 50 feet from the property or vehicle in which the source of the sound is located.
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BY repealing and reordaining, without amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 9-306 and 9-308
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 9-312
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:


Baltimore City Revised Code

Article – Health

Title 9. Noise Regulation

Subtitle 3. Entertainment and Commercial Noise


Part II. Entertainment Noise

§ 9306. Prohibited conduct — in general.

Except as authorized under § 9303 {“Temporary exemptions”} of this subtitle, no person may play, operate, or permit to be played or operated any radio, musical...