{
 "municipality_id": "gx-000131",
 "municipality": "Sooke",
 "status_type": "District Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "British Columbia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "noise",
 "label": "Noise & nuisance",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-08",
 "official_website": "https://sooke.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Noise Control Bylaw No. 485, 2011 - Consolidated",
   "category": "noise",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2022-07-29",
   "document_url": "https://sooke.civicweb.net/document/4030/",
   "summary": "Regulates noise within the District of Sooke; consolidated 2022.",
   "capture_sha256": "bf9b7ba513af809b9d123035219c22e8f5242d4d39d56205ea992fdf30deae65",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-08T06:16:30+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/bf9b7ba513af809b9d123035219c22e8f5242d4d39d56205ea992fdf30deae65.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "construction_hours": "before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday; before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. Sundays and Statutory Holidays",
    "lawn_equipment_hours": "before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. in any Residential Area",
    "amplified_sound_hours": "audible between 11:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. outside premises",
    "idling_limit": "more than 15 minutes at the same location for diesel engine, Truck or bus",
    "exemptions": "police, fire, ambulance, emergency vehicles; government/utility companies; emergency measures; public parades/festivities; municipal construction",
    "fine_range": "not more than $50,000.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "construction_hours": "s.3.2(e)",
    "lawn_equipment_hours": "s.3.2(h)",
    "amplified_sound_hours": "s.3.2(a)",
    "idling_limit": "s.3.2(d)",
    "exemptions": "s.4.1",
    "fine_range": "s.6.3"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/bc/sooke/noise/text-bf9b7ba513af/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/bc/sooke/noise/"
}