2010 California Code
Health and Safety Code
Chapter 1. Findings, Declarations, And Intent

46000.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
   (a) Excessive noise is a serious hazard to the public health and
welfare.
   (b) Exposure to certain levels of noise can result in
physiological, psychological, and economic damage.
   (c) There is a continuous and increasing bombardment of noise in
the urban, suburban, and rural areas.
   (d) Government has not taken the steps necessary to provide for
the control, abatement, and prevention of unwanted and hazardous
noise.
   (e) The State of California has a responsibility to protect the
health and welfare of its citizens by the control, prevention, and
abatement of noise.
   (f) All Californians are entitled to a peaceful and quiet
environment without the intrusion of noise which may be hazardous to
their health or welfare.
   (g) It is the policy of the state to provide an environment for
all Californians free from noise that jeopardizes their health or
welfare. To that end it is the purpose of this division to establish
a means for effective coordination of state activities in noise
control and to take such action as will be necessary to achieve the
purposes of this section.



46001.  No provision of this division or ruling of the Office of
Noise Control is a limitation or expansion:
   (a) On the power of a city, county, or city and county to adopt
and enforce additional regulations, not in conflict therewith,
imposing further conditions, restrictions, or limitations.
   (b) On the power of any city, county, or city and county to
declare, prohibit, and abate nuisances.
   (c) On the power of the Attorney General, at the request of the
office, the state department, or upon his own motion to bring an
action in the name of the people of the State of California to enjoin
any pollution or nuisance or to protect the natural resources of the
state.
   (d) On the power of a state agency in the enforcement or
administration of any provision of law which it is specifically
permitted or required to enforce or administer.
   (e) On the right of any person to maintain at any time any
appropriate action for relief against any private nuisance as defined
in the Civil Code or for relief against any noise pollution.




46002.  Nothing in this division shall be construed as giving the
Office of Noise Control authority or responsibility for adopting or
enforcing noise-emission standards for any product for which a
regulation has been, or could be, prescribed or promulgated by the
Environmental Protection Agency under the Noise Control Act of 1972.