{"id":106124,"date":"2022-07-15T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=106124"},"modified":"2022-07-15T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:59:51","slug":"county-approves-new-noise-control-by-law-and-regime-which-includes-decibel-measuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/county-approves-new-noise-control-by-law-and-regime-which-includes-decibel-measuring\/","title":{"rendered":"County approves new noise control by-law and regime which includes decibel measuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Committee of the Whole approved of a <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/9B8D2053B971497288BABAC8C1F9E2DF-Att%202%20-%20Draft%20Noise%20By-law.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new draft by-law to regulate noise<\/a> in the county on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/227A781180DF4A2183681196CEBFE628-CLS-19-2022%20FINAL%20(CAOsigned).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">features of the new noise by-law<\/a> include: clearer language (a change brought on by recent noise by-law charter challenges); a restriction for indoor amplified noise; and procedures for a municipal by-law officer to utilize a decibel measuring app to help establish objective standards when deciding on enforcement action (though it would need to be corroborated by complainants if challenged in court).<\/p>\n<p>When responding to a question by South Marysburgh Coun. John Hirsch regarding the consistency of afterhours noise enforcement by the OPP, Mike Kelly, supervisor of By-law Services, mentioned that OPP officers will use their own discretion and not use the decibel app due to practical and evidentiary considerations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CJPE story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Committee of the Whole approved of a new draft by-law to regulate noise in the county on Thursday. Some features of the new noise by-law include: clearer language (a change brought on by recent noise by-law charter challenges); a restriction for indoor amplified noise; and procedures for a municipal by-law officer to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":106139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[16817,16818,11573,14241],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106163,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions\/106163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=106124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}