2006 New York Code - Audible Burglar Alarm And Audible Status Indicator.

 
    * § 24-238 Refuse compacting vehicles. (a) No person shall sell, offer
  for  sale,  operate or permit to be operated a refuse compacting vehicle
  manufactured after the effective dates set out in table IIIA, which when
  compacting produces a maximum sound level,  when  measured  by  a  sound
  level  meter  set  for  slow response at a distance of ten feet from the
  center line of the face of the compacting unit, exceeding the applicable
  sound level set out therein.
 
                                 Table IIIA
 
  Effective date                    Allowable sound level
  December 31, 1974               75 dB(A)
  December 31, 1978               70 dB(A)
 
    (b) The commissioner may grant to any person a variance for the  sale,
  purchase   and  operation  of  refuse  compacting  vehicles  which  when
  compacting produce a sound level exceeding the limitation set  forth  in
  this  section whenever it is found, upon presentation of adequate proof,
  that compliance therewith would impose an unreasonable hardship. In  the
  granting  of  such variance, the commissioner may impose such conditions
  as the policies of this code may require.
    (c) A variance granted pursuant to subdivision  (b)  of  this  section
  shall  be  valid  for  the  initial  purchase  of  the refuse compacting
  equipment which is the subject of the  variance  request  and  shall  be
  valid  for the operation of such equipment by the original purchaser for
  a period not to exceed the useful life of the equipment covered by  such
  variance.  If,  in  the  opinion  of  the commissioner, application of a
  resonable  retrofit  program  will  permit  refuse  compacting  vehicles
  purchased  under  a variance granted pursuant to subdivision (b) of this
  section to achieve substantial compliance with the  noise  standards  of
  this code, the commissioner may require the owner of equipment operating
  under  such  a  variance to initiate such a retrofit program in order to
  obtain such substantial compliance.
    (d) Any person seeking a variance shall do so by filing a petition  in
  a  form  acceptable to the commissioner. The commissioner shall promptly
  give written notice of such petition to any person in the  city  of  New
  York who has in writing requested notice of such variance petitions, and
  shall  promptly  publish  notice of such petition in the City Record. If
  the commissioner, in his or her discretion,  concludes  that  a  hearing
  would  be  advisable,  or if any person files a written objection to the
  granting of such variance within twenty-one days from the publication of
  notice in the City Record, then a public hearing shall  be  held  unless
  the variance is revised to meet such objection.
    (e) The power of the commissioner to grant a variance pursuant to this
  section shall terminate September first, nineteen hundred seventy-three.
    * NB Effective until July 1, 2007
    * §  24-238 Audible burglar alarm and audible status indicator. (a) No
  owner of a building or of a motor vehicle shall  have  in  operation  an
  audible burglar alarm thereon unless such burglar alarm shall be capable
  of  and  shall  automatically  terminate  its  operation  within fifteen
  minutes of its being activated in the case  of  a  building,  and  three
  minutes  of  its  being  activated  in  the  case of a motor vehicle. No
  audible burglar alarm on a motor  vehicle  shall  be  capable  of  being
  activated except by:
    (i) direct physical contact with that motor vehicle; or
    (ii)  through  the use of an individual remote activation device, that
  is activated from no further than 15 feet away from  such  vehicle  and,
  that  is  designed to be used with the audible burglar alarm system of a


  particular vehicle which alarm shall be capable of and  shall  terminate
  its audible response within three minutes of its being activated.
    (b)  No  owner  of  a motor vehicle shall have in operation an audible
  status indicator on such motor vehicle.
    * NB Effective July 1, 2007