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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 246893" data-attributes="member: 562">Sounds like BS to me, are there typically noise restrictions in rural areas? Farm equipment isnt always super quiet....This could be a serious one guys, I just read the language of the bill and it would eliminate the use of a most 2 stroke motors at night in ND. According to the billSenator ErbeleRepresentative BrandenburgA BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 20.1-13 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to restrictions on noises resulting from the operation of boats and otherwatercraft; and to provide a penalty.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 20.1-13 of the North Dakota Century Code is createdand enacted as follows:Watercraft noise restrictions.1.An individual may not operate a boat or other watercraft if the operation of the boat orwatercraft results in a loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise; or a noise that annoys,disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of areasonable person hearing the noise. Except as set forth in subsection2, the following factors must be considered when determining whether a reasonable person hearing a noise resulting from the operation of a boat or other watercraft would find the noise violates this section:a.The volume of the noise;b.The intensity of the noise;c.Whether the noise is unusual;d.Whether the origin of the noise is natural or unnatural;e.The volume and intensity of any background noise;f.The proximity of the noise to residential sleeping facilities;g.The nature and zoning of the area from which the noise emanates;h.The population density of the area from which the noise emanates;i.The time of day or night;j.The duration of the noise; andk.Whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent, or constant.2.An individual who creates a noise exceeding eighty-eight decibels by operating a boator watercraft between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. is in violation of section1.The noise must be measured at a distance of twenty-five feet [7.62 meters] from thesource of the noise.5.An individual who violates this section is guilty of a class2 noncriminal offense.Examples of noise that my violate this 88db restriction listed below...<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Boeing 737 or  DC-9 aircraft at one nautical mile (6080 ft) before landing (97 dB);  power mower (96 dB); motorcycle at 25 ft (90 dB). Newspaper press (97  dB). </td><td>90 </td><td>4 times as loud as 70 dB. Likely damage in 8 hour exposure. </td></tr><tr><td>Garbage  disposal, dishwasher, average factory, freight train (at 15 meters).  Car wash at 20 ft (89 dB); propeller plane flyover at 1000 ft (88 dB);  diesel truck 40 mph at 50 ft (84 dB); diesel train at 45 mph at 100 ft  (83 dB). Food blender (88 dB); milling machine (85 dB); garbage disposal  (80 dB). </td><td>80 </td><td>2 times as loud as 70 dB. Possible damage in 8 hour exposure. </td></tr></table></blockquote>

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