Noise Bylaw 12-2025 — full text

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## RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF EXCEL NO. 71 BYLAW NO. 12-2025 ## A BYLAW TO REGULATE AND CONTROL NOISE The Council of the Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71, in the Province of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: 1. Short Title 2. 1.1 This bylaw may be referred to as the "Noise Bylaw". 2. Purpose 4. 2.1 This bylaw is enacted to protect, preserve and promote the safety, health, welfare, peace and quiet of the citizens of the Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71 through the reduction, control, and prevention of loud and excessive noise, or any noise which unreasonably disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensitivity. 3. Definitions 6. 3.1 In this bylaw, the following definitions apply: - a) "Holiday" means any statutory holiday listed in The Saskatchewan Employment Act, or any holiday proclaimed as such by the municipality. - b) "Motor vehicle" means a vehicle propelled or driven by any means other than muscular power. - c) "Municipality" means the Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71. 4. General Prohibition 11. 4.1 No person shall make, continue, cause to be made or continued, or suffer or permit to be made or - a) any unreasonably loud or excessive noise; or - b) any noise which is likely to unreasonably disturb, injure, or endanger the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons in the vicinity. 14. 4.2 Factors for determining whether a sound is unreasonably loud or excessive include, but are not limited to, the following: - a) the proximity of sound to sleeping facilities, whether residential or commercial; - b) the land use, nature and zoning of the area from which the sound emanates and the area where it is received or perceived; - c) the time of day or night the sound occurs; - d) the duration of the sound; - e) the volume of the sound; - f) the nature of the sound; - g) whether the sound is recurrent, intermittent or constant; and - h) the nature of the event or activity from which the sound emanates. 23. 4.3 In the absence of other evidence, or by way of corroboration of other evidence, a justice or court may infer from the evidence of an Enforcement Officer relating to a noise, including, but not being limited to evidence concerning the factors references in subsection 4.2 hereof that a noise is: - a) unreasonably loud or excessive; and/or - b) likely to unreasonably disturb, injure or endanger the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons within the vicinity. ## 5. Specific Prohibitions - 5.1 Without restricting the generality of section 4, a person shall only operate or allow to be operated: - a) a lawn mower of any kind; - b) a snow clearing device powered by an engine of any type; - c) a model aircraft driven by an internal combustion engine; - d) any tools, equipment or machinery involved in the construction, erection, demolition, alteration or repair of any type of building or structure; - e) any other tools, equipment or machinery including, but not limited to, a cement mixer, cement mixer truck, gravel crusher, riveting machine, trenching machine, drag line, air or steam compressor, jack hammer or pneumatic drill, tractor, or bulldozer; between the hours of 7 o'clock in the morning and 10 o'clock in the evening on weekdays, or between 9 o'clock in the morning and 10 o'clock in the evening on weekends and holidays. ## Domestic Noises - 5.2 No person who owns, keeps, houses, harbours, or allows to stay in their premises a dog shall allow such dog to bark or howl excessively. - 5.3 No person being the owner or occupant of any premises shall operate, or permit to be operated, or suffer to be operated, or allow to be operated, play or allow to be played, any radio, phonograph, record player, tape recorder, television set, musical instrument, or any other apparatus, appliance, device or machine used for the production or amplification of sound, either in or on private premises in a residential district in such a manner that the same can be easily heard by an individual or member of the public who is not on the same premises from which such noise or sound emanates. ## Advertising Noises - 5.4 No person shall advertise any event or merchandise by ringing bells, blowing whistles, calling loudly, playing music, playing any type of musical instrument, playing or using any type of noise making instrument, or by the use of loud speakers or other devices for the amplification of sound, or by any other audible means, on any street or other public place or in any building or premises with the intention or result that the sound therefrom shall be or is audible to persons using or frequenting any street or other public place. ## 6. Exceptions - 6.1 The provisions of this Bylaw shall not apply to: - a) noises in conjunction with emergency situations that have been approved by the municipality; - b) the ringing of bells in churches, religious establishments and schools; - c) the moderate use of musical instruments to call attention to an opportunity to contribute to a collection made for a charitable undertaking during the Christmas season or at any other time; - d) the playing of a band, the sounding of steam whistle, the sounding of motor vehicles' horns or the use of sound amplification equipment used in connection with any parade; - e) the moderate playing of musical instruments appropriate to any religious street service; - f) the sounding of a general or a particular alarm or warning to announce a fire or other emergency or disaster; - g) the sounding of a factory whistle and similar devices at normal appropriate times; - h) the sounding of police whistles or the sirens on any vehicle used by the police or fire department or on any ambulance or public service vehicle; - i) any use of sound amplification equipment used by the police, fire department or any ambulance service or public service; - j) the use in a reasonable manner of any apparatus or mechanism for the amplification of the human voice or of music in a public park or any other commodious space in connection with any public election meeting, public celebration, or other reasonable gathering. 7. Penalties Any person who contravenes the provisions of this bylaw is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to the penalties imposed in the general penalty bylaw of the municipality. ## 8. Repeal of Previous Bylaw - 8.1 Bylaw No. 14-2019 is hereby repealed.    Read a first time the 11t day of September, 2025. Read a second time the 11' day of September, 2025. Read a third time and adopted this 14' day of October, 2025. Reeve elit Hate of SASKATCHEWAM SANADA EXCEL No. T CERTIFIED A TRUE COPY OF BYLAW NO. 12-2025, ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 14, 2025. = Hark Reeve GASKATCHEWAN CANADA SENS No. M dministrater Bylaw 12-2025