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Your municipality likely has noise ordinances for anything above a certain decibel level. This can be handled by your local PD giving them tickets for their exh
by wutwutwat 3y ago
Your municipality likely has noise ordinances for anything above a certain decibel level. This can be handled by your local PD giving them tickets for their exhausts. I’ve seen it done before. If they keep getting tickets/fines they will likely change their exhausts. You can probably call the city about it but you can also call the cops. Just remember what they say about snitches.
- miguelazo 3y agoMost municipalities, especially ones relying on cops to enforce these rules, rarely take action on these complaints.
- pc86 3y agoWho is going to enforce these rules other than cops? I mean yeah if they never get complains about a given area and they get one call about a loud car driving they're not going to come in lights and sirens to search for them. But if they consistently get complaints it will absolutely guide their decision-making around where to patrol, how often, etc. Of course this assumes that the political leadership in your municipality hasn't decided that cops don't need to enforce laws (rare outside of a few large cities) and they're not busier with much more serious crimes, underfunded and understaffed, and just not able to spend time on noise complaints (rare but a common talking point).
- Scoundreller 3y agoAt least in Canadian cities, both bylaw officers and police can enforce these things. Bylaw officers tend to have less discretion on doing their job (and uhhh, fewer other crimes to claim to be busy with) Though sometimes this double-responsibility just means finger-pointing instead of action.
- InitialLastName 3y agoI've never heard of bylaw officers being a thing in the US. There are some code enforcement people in the US, but they mostly deal in very specific areas (fire code, building code, etc).
- miguelazo 3y agoThis is true. Although, there have been sporadic recent creations of community safety teams and units that deal specifically with the unhoused populations or mentally ill people, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement.
- Scoundreller 3y agoDon’t worry, you’re not missing out. Ours are ineffective/unwilling to enforce noise bylaws against vehicles anyway.
- RajT88 3y agoThese rules are usually used as probable cause to target someone the police officer was already targeting. "Profiling" is the better word for it maybe.
- wutwutwat 3y agoIf I chop the muffler off my car and run around revving the hell out of my engine I’m not going to say I was targeted or profiled after I’m pulled over in the vehicle that’s calling out to nearby police to take notice of me, regardless of what I’m ticketed for in the end. The squeaky wheel gets the grease as they say. You don’t want to be “targeted” or “profiled” (which isn’t what that would be anyway), then you need to blend.
- genter 3y agoDon't waste your time. I've tried, my PD told me that I need to get used to the noise.
- grepfru_it 3y agoLet me translate for you: Management (the courts) do not find it lucrative enough (political capital) to pursue weak cases (lax laws passed by the legislative branch). In order to fix you must bring awareness in your local community to the problem (lax laws) and petition change (raise political capital). The courts and byproxy, enforcement, will follow. The larger the city, the more difficult this becomes.
- genter 3y agoNo, I believe the officer I talked to didn't care and thought I was a pansy.
- grepfru_it 3y agoErgo he has no incentive to target certain laws. Nothing I said was incorrect
- bdcravens 3y agoProbably a gearhead showing his personal bias.
- genter 3y agoThe really frustrating thing is I love cars. I love driving, I love shifting though the gears, I love working on them, I've replaced headgaskets, rebuilt transmissions, and regeared differentials. I just hate how obnoxious noisy vehicles are.
- bdcravens 3y agoFor sure - I love speed myself. (Ironic that my fastest car ever is also the quietest, but EVs are a different creature). I guess not everyone has the same ethos that our personal enjoyment doesn't entitle us to encroach on others.
- plagiarist 3y agoI have never heard of a municipality actually enforcing their sound regulations other than live performances being shut down.
- lokar 3y agoLaguna beach is pretty strict on out of towners with loud pipes
- wutwutwat 3y agoGrow up with alcoholic parent who loves to max out their high wattage sound system at 3am all the time and you’ll see it enforced often. Most house parties are shutdown due to noise complaints.
- CobaltFire 3y agoCoronado Island (San Diego) loves giving tickets to all the Navy personnel driving through with too loud of vehicles. We try to warn people transferring there but many don't listen and end up with tickets. To be fair (to those who think that's excessive), they also (on two occasions) chased down and cited/arrested people who tried to run me off the road on my bicycle there (commuted via bicycle for years), and I've had many other great interactions with them.
- tbyehl 3y agoWhere I grew up, an automotive noise citation was easy to beat in court because the law incorporated a complicated and exacting standard for measurement.
- wutwutwat 3y agoMost citations can get off on technicalities but that involves missing work, appearing in court, mounting a defense, and the gamble of owing the fine + additional court costs if you lose, and they probably, literally, bank on the probability that most people just pay the fine. Speeding tickets can be thrown out if the radar wasn’t recently calibrated, just have to ask about it in court. Window tint is the same deal, when was it last calibrated and documented to be within spec? Etc.