2019 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 10 - Shooting Ranges
150 - Shooting Ranges.

§  150.  Shooting  ranges.  1.  In  any action or proceeding commenced
against an owner or user of a shooting range where one or more causes of
action asserts a claim based on noise or noise pollution resulting  from
the  inherent  shooting  activity on such shooting range, it shall be an
affirmative defense that, at the time of the commencement of the  action
or  proceeding,  the shooting range is in compliance with any applicable
noise control laws or ordinances, or, if the  applicable  noise  control
laws  or ordinances have no legal force and effect against such owner or
user or there are no applicable noise control laws or ordinances at  the
time  of  the  effective date of this section, then the A-weighted sound
level of small arms fire on the shooting range does not exceed 90  dB(A)
for  one  hour out of a day, or does not exceed 85 dB(A) for eight hours
out of a day measured at, or adjusted to, a distance of one hundred feet
outside the real property boundary of the shooting range.  An  owner  or
user  may  move  for  judgment  dismissing  one or more causes of action
asserted against him on the ground that a  cause  of  action  cannot  be
maintained because of such affirmative defense.
  2.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  in  any way limit the rights or
remedies which are otherwise available to a person under any other law.
  3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of  this
section,  no  shooting  range  shall  be operated during the period from
10:00 PM until 7:00 AM unless a  local  law  or  ordinance  specifically
authorizes  the  operation of a shooting range during all or any portion
of such time period.
  4. For the purposes of this section:
  (a) "Shooting range" shall mean an outdoor range equipped with targets
for use with firearms and shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  all
rifle, pistol and shotgun ranges.
  (b)  "A-weighted  sound  level"  shall  mean  the sound pressure level
measured by the use of an instrument with the  metering  characteristics
and  A-weighting  frequency  response  prescribed  by sound level meters
using the impulse response mode.
  (c) "Sound pressure level" shall mean twenty times  the  logarithm  to
the  base  ten of the ratio of the root mean squared pressure of a sound
to a reference pressure of twenty micropascals. The unit applied to this
measure shall be the decibel (dB).
  (d) "Small arms" shall mean  projectile  firearms  of  small  caliber,
including rifles, pistols, and shotguns.