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COUNCIL NOISE BYLAW
NORTHERN VILLAGE OF SANDY BAY
BYLAW NO. 8-2024
PART I
INTERPRETATION
Short Title
1. This bylaw may be cited as "The Northern Village of Sandy Bay Noise Bylaw".
Purpose
2. The purpose of this bylaw is to prohibit certain noises likely to disturb the residents of the Northern Village of
Sandy Bay.
Definitions
3. In this bylaw:
a) "Act" means The Northern Municipalities Act, 2010 [NMA].
b) "Council" means the mayor and councilors of the municipality elected pursuant to the provisions of The Local
Government Election Act, 2015;
c) "Councilor" means the council member duly elected in the municipality as a councilor in accordance with The
Local Government Election Act, 2015;
d) "Inspector" means any person duly appointed by council to enforce and administer this bylaw;
e) "Noise" includes any loud outcry, clamor, shouting or movement or any sound that is harsh or undesirable;
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 part thereof.
h)
PART II
GENERAL
4.
Regulations
a) No person being the owner, tenant, or occupier of real property shall between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00
am of the next following day, within the limits of the Northern Village of Sandy Bay make or cause to be made
an unusual or unnecessary noise, or noise likely to disturb the persons in the neighborhood or vicinity;
b) No person being the owner, tenant, or occupier of real property shall between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00
am of the next following day permit or allow any unusual or unnecessary noise likely to disturb persons to be
made upon any premises occupied by the person or under their control within the Northern Village of Sandy
Bay, except with the written permission of the Northern Village of Sandy Bay Council;
c) No person shall play or operate any radio, stereophonic equipment or other instrument or apparatus for the
production or amplification of sound either in or on a private residence or in any public place in such a manner
as to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort, or convenience of the neighborhood or person in the
vicinity;
d) No person in a residential district or commercial district shall cause the idling of any truck or power unit or the
operations of any motor reefer or similar device on a semi-trailer for more than twenty (20) minutes;
e) No person shall own, keep or harbor any animal or bird which by its cries unduly disturbs the peace, quiet, rest
or tranquility of the surrounding neighborhood or the public at large;
f) No person shall between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am of the next following day, within the limits of the
Northern Village of Sandy Bay construct, erect, construct, alter, repair or demolish any building, structure or
thing, or excavate or fill in land in any manner which disturbs the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or
convenience of the neighborhood or of persons in the vicinity;
g) No person shall operate a snow vehicle or off-road vehicle, motor vehicle or motorcycle which makes or causes
excessive noise except to exit the Northern Village of Sandy Bay directly from the property or to enter a
property directly
5. Exemption
a) Exempt from this bylaw is all municipal equipment or hired municipal equipment used for water or sewer
extraction and repair, snow removal or any other municipal purpose the council feels is necessary.
b) Notwithstanding any provisions of this bylaw, a person may perform works of an emergency nature for the
preservations or protection of life, health or property but the onus shall be on the person performing the work
to show cause that the work was of an emergent nature.
PART III
PENALTY
6. Penalty
a) Any person, firm, company or corporation committing a breach of this bylaw, shall be liable upon summary
conviction by a magistrate, provincial judge or justice of the peace, where territorial limits and jurisdiction
includes the place of occurrence of the breach, to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) and not
more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and in default of payment to a term of imprisonment not
exceeding sixty (60) days unless the cost of the of the penalty is paid sooner.
(Mayor Signature)
{Seal}
(Administrator Signature)
Read a third time and adopted
this ____ day of ___________.
_________________________
(Administrator Signature)