Section 3-403 - Environmental noise standards, sound level limits, and noise control rules and regulations - Enforcement.
§ 3-403. Environmental noise standards, sound level limits, and noise control rules and regulations - Enforcement.
(a) Duty of Department; Harford County.-
(1) The Department shall enforce the sound level limits and noise control rules and regulations adopted under this title.
(2) In Harford County, the Secretary may delegate enforcement under paragraph (1) of this subsection to the Sheriff of Harford County, except enforcement regarding:
(i) Trapshooting, skeetshooting, or other target shooting between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. at a shooting sports club that is chartered and in operation in Harford County;
(ii) Lawful trapshooting, skeetshooting, or other target shooting between the hours of 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.; or
(iii) Lawful hunting.
(b) Use of agency facilities and services.- To the maximum extent possible, the Department shall use the facilities and services of appropriate agencies of political subdivisions in its enforcement under this section.
(c) Assistance to political subdivisions.- The Department may assist the noise control efforts of any appropriate agency of any political subdivision by giving that agency technical assistance in the form of personnel or equipment.
(d) Application of sound level limits.- Each sound level limit shall be applied at the boundary of:
(1) A property; or
(2) A land use category, as determined by the Department.
[An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 828; 1982, ch. 240, § 2; 2006, ch. 561; 2010, ch. 521.]