File #: Int 0092-2024    Version: * Name: Prohibiting low bass music originating from open-air structures and spaces used for performances or events.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting low bass music originating from open-air structures and spaces used for performances or events
Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Keith Powers
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would prohibit low bass music at a level of 40 hertz or below for a duration of 10 seconds or more that originates from open-air structures and spaces, like stadiums and fields, used for performances or events. The Environmental Control Board would impose civil penalties of $1,000 for a first violation of this prohibition, $2,000 for a second violation committed within 2 years of the first violation, and $4,000 for a third and each subsequent violation committed within 2 years of the first violation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 92, 2. Int. No. 92, 3. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24

Int. No. 92

 

By Council Members Schulman and Powers

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting low bass music originating from open-air structures and spaces used for performances or events

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 24-203 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions (64) and (65) to read as follows:

(64) Bass means tones of low frequency and pitch.

(65) Hertz means the practical unit of measurement of bass and is the standard measure of frequency of a sound wave, with 1 hertz equaling 1 cycle of such wave per second.

§ 2. Subchapter 5 of chapter 2 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-231.1 to read as follows:

§ 24-231.1 Low bass music originating from open-air structures and spaces. No person shall make or cause, or cause or permit to be made or caused, any music originating from a fixed open-air structure or an open-air space used for performances or events, including but not limited to an open-air stadium, theater, or field used for such purposes, that is measured at a bass level of 40 hertz or below for a duration of 10 seconds or more, as measured at any point within a receiving property or as measured at a distance of 15 feet or more from the perimeter of such structure or space on a public right-of-way.

§ 3. Table I in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of section 24-257 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding after the row beginning 24-231(d) civil penalties for violation of section 24-231.1, to read as follows:

TABLE 1

Civil Penalties

Violations related to section and subdivision

First Violation

Second Violation*

Third and Subsequent Violations*

 

Maximum

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum

24.231.1

1,000

1,000

2,000

2,000

4,000

4,000

 

§ 4. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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