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Seattle Municipal Code Table of Contents

Title 25  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Chapter 25.08  NOISE CONTROL

• Sections:
• SubChapter I   General Provisions
• 25.08.010   Declaration of policy.
• 25.08.020   Findings of special conditions.
• 25.08.030   Chapter additional to other law.
• SubChapter II   Definitions
• 25.08.040   Definitions generally—Gender
• 25.08.050   Administrative Code
• 25.08.060   Administrator
• 25.08.068   Amplified Noise.
• 25.08.069   City Holiday
• 25.08.070   Commercial agriculture.
• 25.08.080   Construction.
• 25.08.090   dB(A).
• 25.08.100   Districts
• 25.08.110   Emergency work.
• 25.08.120   Equipment.
• 25.08.140   Gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR).
• 25.08.150   Impulsive sound.
• 25.08.155   Legal Holiday
• 25.08.160   Leq.
• 25.08.165   Lmax
• 25.08.168   Major public project
• 25.08.170   Motorcycle.
• 25.08.180   Motor vehicle
• 25.08.190   Motor vehicle racing event
• 25.08.200   Muffler.
• 25.08.210   New motor vehicle.
• 25.08.220   Noise.
• 25.08.221   Receiving Dwelling unit.
• 25.08.225   Residential disturbance.
• 25.08.230   Off-highway vehicle
• 25.08.250   Person.
• 25.08.260   Property boundary.
• 25.08.270   Highway
• 25.08.280   Public nuisance noise.
• 25.08.290   Pure tone component.
• 25.08.300   Real property
• 25.08.310   Receiving property.
• 25.08.315   Shoreline.
• 25.08.320   Sound level
• 25.08.330   Sound level meter
• 25.08.340   Special construction vehicle
• 25.08.350   Use.
• 25.08.360   Warning device.
• 25.08.370   Watercraft.
• 25.08.380   Weekday
• 25.08.390   Weekend
• SubChapter III   Environmental Sound Levels
• 25.08.400   Unlawful sounds
• 25.08.410   Exterior sound level limits.
• 25.08.420   Modifications to exterior sound level limits
• 25.08.425   Sounds created by construction and maintenance equipment
• 25.08.426   Plan review fee.
• SubChapter IV   Motor Vehicle Sound Levels
• 25.08.430   Sounds created by operation of motor vehicles
• 25.08.450   Modification to motor vehicles.
• 25.08.460   Tire noise.
• 25.08.470   Sale of new motor vehicles that exceed limits
• 25.08.480   Motor vehicle exemptions
• 25.08.485   Watercraft
• SubChapter V   Public Nuisance Noises
• 25.08.490   Prohibited.
• 25.08.500   Public disturbance noises.
• 25.08.501   Nightlife disturbance.
• 25.08.505   Residential disturbance violation.
• 25.08.508   Abatement of chronic violations.
• 25.08.510   Exempted sources
• 25.08.515   Public disturbance noise from portable or motor vehicle audio equipment.
• 25.08.520   Noise in public parks and places.
• SubChapter VI   Exemptions
• 25.08.530   Sounds exempt at all times
• 25.08.540   Sounds exempt during daytime hours—Generally
• 25.08.545   Sounds exempt during daytime hours-Aircraft testing and maintenance
• 25.08.550   Sounds exempt from nighttime reduction
• SubChapter VII   Variances
• 25.08.560   Application—Generally
• 25.08.580   Discretion of Administrator
• 25.08.590   Granting of variance
• 25.08.600   Extension of variances
• 25.08.610   Appeal procedure
• 25.08.615   Revocation of Variance
• 25.08.630   Temporary variance
• 25.08.640   Technical variance
• 25.08.650   Economic variance
• 25.08.655   Major Public Project Construction Variance
• SubChapter VIII   Administration and Noise Measurement
• 25.08.660   Authority of Administrator and Chief of Police.
• 25.08.670   Duties of Administrator
• 25.08.680   Measurement of sound
• 25.08.690   Technical corrections.
• 25.08.700   Receiving properties within more than one district
• SubChapter IX   Enforcement
• 25.08.710   Right of entry
• 25.08.720   Stop Work Order
• 25.08.730   Notice of Violation
• 25.08.740   Service, Mailing and Posting of Notice.
• 25.08.760   Review by the Administrator
• 25.08.765   Order of the Administrator
• 25.08.800   Civil Enforcement and Criminal Penalties
• 25.08.805   Residential disturbance penalties.
• 25.08.820   Penalties cumulative
• 25.08.890   Warning for Nightlife disturbance violations.
• 25.08.900   Citation.
• 25.08.910   Response to citations.
• 25.08.915   Voluntary mitigation and waiver of initial penalty for nightlife disturbance violations.
• 25.08.920   Failure to respond.
• 25.08.930   Mitigation hearings
• 25.08.940   Contested case hearing.
• 25.08.950   Failure to appear for hearing.
• 25.08.960   Citation Penalties
• 25.08.970   Each day a separate violation.

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