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Hamlet of Cambridge Bay By-Laws
By-Law - No. 37 Noise Control Page 1
By-Law Name:
Noise Control
By-Law Number:
37
Description
Being a by-law of the Municipality of Cambridge Bay in Nunavut to reduce and control unusual,
unnecessary or excessive noise or vibration which may disturb or annoy the inhabitants of the
Municipality of Cambridge Bay.
Pursuant to the Hamlets Acts S.N.W.T., 1987(1) being Chapter M17 S. 120 and to Section
203(1)(f) of the Vehicles Ordinance, being Chapter V-2 of the Revised Ordinances of the
Northwest Territories, 1974,as amended;
By-Law
Now, therefore, The Council of the Municipality of Cambridge Bay, in the Northwest Territories,
in a regular meeting duly assembled, enacts as follows:
1.
Short Title
This By-Law may be cited as the Noise Control By-Law.
2.
Interpretation
In this By-Law:
a)
"Conveyance"
includes a vehicle as defined in the Vehicle
Ordinance and any other device employed to
transport a person or persons or goods from
place to place.
b)
"Municipality"
means the Incorporated Hamlet of Cambridge
Bay.
c)
"Council"
means the Council of the Incorporated Hamlet
of Cambridge Bay.
d)
"Noise"
meaning any unnecessary and excessive sound
including any loud outcry, clamor, shouting or
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movement, or and sound that is loud or harsh
or undesirable.
e)
"Officer"
means a constable of the Municipality of
Cambridge Bays By-law Division and ex
official, and any member of the R.C.M.P.
f)
"Person"
includes any company, corporation, owner,
partnership, firm, association, society or party;
g)
"Property"
means real property and includes land, other
than
a
highway,
together
with
all
improvements which have been so affixed to
the land as to make them in fact and in law a
part thereof.
h)
"Quiet Time"
means the time from 23:00 hours to 07:00
hours (11:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M.).
i)
"Quiet Zone"
means that area defined as the area located
within the Municipal Boundary of the Hamlet
of Cambridge Bay.
j)
"Senior Administrative Officer"
means the Senior Administrative Officer of
the Hamlet of Cambridge Bay.
3.
Save as herein otherwise provided, the terms and expressions used in this By-Law shall
have the same meaning as in the Interpretation Ordinance, the Municipal Ordinance and the
Vehicles Ordinance respectively.
4.
General Prohibitions
a)
No Person shall make cause, or permit to be made or caused, any noise in or on a
public or private place which disturbs or tends to disturb the quiet, peace, rest,
enjoyment, comfort, or convenience of any person or persons during the
Municipality's Quiet Time.
b)
No Person shall play or operate any radio, stereophonic equipment or other
instrument or any apparatus for the production or amplification of sound either in or
on private premises or in any public place in such a manner as to disturb the quiet,
peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of any person or persons during the
Hamlet's Quiet Time.
c)
No Person shall operate a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or other Conveyance which
disturbs the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or conveyance which disturbs the
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quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the person or persons in
the vicinity during the Hamlet's Quiet Time.
d)
No person shall emit, cause, or permit the emission of any Noise as described in this
By-Law which disturbs the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of
individuals located in the Hamlet's Quiet Zone at any time of the day or night.
5.
Penalty Section
a)
Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law is guilty of an
offence, punishable on summary conviction and is liable to a fine of not more than
Five Hundred ($500.00) dollars or to imprisonment for one (1) month or both; and
in default of payment of any fine imposed, a period of imprisonment not exceeding
one (1) month.
b)
An officer who has reasonable or probable grounds to believe that a person is
violating any provision of this by-law may give such person written notice of
intention to prosecute in the form of a ticket as defined in the Summary Conviction
Procedures Ordinance, setting forth the date, time and place of the offense; briefly
stating the nature of the offence and stating that payment may be made under
Section 5 (c) of the by-law.
c)
A person, who has received a ticket pursuant to Section 5 (b) in respect of an
alleged offence under this by-law, may within fourteen (14) days after receipt of
such ticket, in lieu of prosecution under this by-law pay a fine in the sum of fifty
($50.00) dollars.
Date of First Reading
(Day)
14
(Month)
09
(Year)
1988
Date of Second Reading
(Day)
21
(Month)
12
(Year)
1988
The unanimous consent of all members present and voting having been obtained,
Date of Third Reading and Passed
(Day)
18
(Month)
01
(Year)
1989
Mayor
Senior Administrative Officer