T.F introduces noise restriction ordinance

T.F. introduces noise restriction ordinance
Specific time limits would be set
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

TINTON FALLS — The Borough Council voted unanimously Sept. 1 to introduce an ordinance limiting noise in the borough during certain hours.

The council voted 5-0 after discussing the possible ordinance at two previous summer workshop meetings.

Councilwoman NancyAnne Fama originally suggested the ordinance at the July 7 workshop meeting.

What the ordinance sets time limits and clears up some vague definitions in the original noise ordinance.

"I think it just has a time now," Borough Clerk Karen Mount-Taylor explained last week.

"Before, we just had a general noise ordinance. Now it's between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m."

The ordinance seeks to control "Sound that is plainly audible from off the premises, adjoining properties or public spaces between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m."

The borough currently has a noise ordinance that was drafted in the 1980s that is considered outdated by the borough administration.

"Now the enforcement agency has something that says if someone is making very loud noises and disturbing the neighborhood at 11:05 p.m., they now have something in writing," she added.

Mount-Taylor also said that noise was better defined in the proposed ordinance.

"Some things were defined better, meaning prohibited noises," she said.

The ordinance also adds some restrictions on some new-age noise-making devices, such as sound-amplifying devices.

Also included in the fourpage ordinance are clarifications involving animals, construction, advertising and personal noise, such as yelling

and singing loudly, garbage

collection and landscaping.

When the noise ordinance was discussed in workshop, there was mention of setting a decibel limit, but the ordinance, as introduced, has no mention of a decibel limit.

Tinton Falls Police Chief Gerald Turning told the council that there are many complaints throughout the town about noise.

Mount-Taylor was happy with the proposed ordinance, saying, "Before, it was too general."

A public hearing on the ordinance is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 6.


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