City of Annapolis - File #: O-36-18

• File #: O-36-18
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/7/2018
• In control: Public Safety Committee
• On agenda: 10/8/2018
• Final action: 10/8/2018
• Title: Public Peace - Noise Prohibition - For the purpose of making technical corrections to the City of Annapolis Environmental and Motor Vehicle Noise Standards.
• Sponsors: Gavin Buckley
• Indexes: Public Safety Committee

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/8/2018	1	City Council	adopt on second reader	Pass
10/8/2018	1	City Council	adopt on third reader	Pass
10/1/2018	1	Public Safety Committee	recommend favorably	Pass
9/24/2018	1	City Council	declare the public hearing closed
9/10/2018	1	City Council	adopt on first reader	Pass
9/10/2018	1	City Council	refer

Title

Public Peace - Noise Prohibition - For the purpose of making technical corrections to the City of Annapolis Environmental and Motor Vehicle Noise Standards.

Body

CITY COUNCIL OF THE

City of Annapolis

Ordinance 36-18

Introduced by: Mayor Buckley

Referred to

Public Safety Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Public Peace - Noise Prohibition

FOR                     the purpose of making technical corrections to the City of Annapolis Environmental and Motor Vehicle Noise Standards.

BY                     repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2018 Edition

                     11.12.020

SECTION I:                     BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

TITLE 11 - PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Chapter 11.12 - PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER

Section 11.12.020 - Noise prohibition.

A.                      SectionsCode of Maryland Regulations 26.02.03.01 and 26.02.03.0326.02.03.02 of the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), as amended from time to time, are hereby adopted as the Environmental Noise Standards of the City of Annapolis with the following amendments:

1.                      except that the maximum decibel levels allowed within the City of Annapolis are set forth in the following table, which table shall supersede Code of Maryland Regulation 26.02.03.02 Table 1Table 2 in Section 26.02.03.03 is amended to read as follows:

Area or activity	Maximum decibel level may not exceed:
	Daytime hours of 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.	Nighttime hours of  10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Residential zoning districts as identified in Chapter 21.40	65 dBA	55 dBA
Office and mixed use districts as identified in Chapter 21.44	67 dBA	62 dBA
Commercial and industrial zoning districts as identified in Chapter 21.42	75 dBA	75 dBA

2.                      Subsection C of Section 26.02.03.03 is stricken.

B.                      SectionsCode of Maryland Regulations 11.14.07.02 through 11.14.07.12 of the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), as amended from time to time, are hereby adopted as the Motor Vehicle Noise Standards of the City of Annapolis.

C.                     A violation of this section is subject to penalty pursuant to section 11.12.120.

SECTION  II:   AND  BE  IT  FURTHER  ESTABLISHED  AND  ORDAINED  BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.

EXPLANATION

Underlining indicates matter added to existing law.

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Double Underlining indicates amendments.