CHAPTER 10-400. NOISE AND EXCESSIVE VIBRATION
§10-407. Powers and Duties of the Board of Health. [58.3]
The Board of Health shall have the following powers and
duties:
(1) to promulgate regulations, implementing this Chapter,
preventing noise and excessive vibration, and limiting, controlling or
prohibiting noise and excessive vibration from any sources. Such regulations may
include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) the intensity,
frequency, duration and other characteristics of sound and vibration, the
circumstances under which sound and vibration are permitted, and the degree of
control required for sound and vibration;
(b) noise and excessive
vibration and related actions which are prohibited;
(c) the types and
kinds of control measures and actions, including specifications and/or
performance requirements, which may be required to control or eliminate noise
and excessive vibration;
(2) to promulgate regulations to establish
objectives for the prevention of community degradation, due to noise and
excessive vibration, to establish areas where objectives are applicable, and
limiting, prohibiting, or otherwise controlling noise and excessive vibration.
Such regulations may include, but are not limited to, the control or prohibition
of acts that may cause sounds or vibrations prohibited by or in excess of that
permitted by this Chapter or regulations adopted hereunder, including each and
every means enumerated in paragraph (1) of this Section;
(3) to classify
sources of sound and vibration by character, process, industry, cause, effects,
or other reasonable system for the purpose of promulgating regulations requiring
the application of measures to control and/or eliminate noise and excessive
vibrations.