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Committee votes not to pass bill aimed at insulating farm operations from local noise rules
Summary
Representative Comteuil introduced House Bill 272 to clarify that agricultural operations are not subject to local disturbance-of-the-peace or quiet-hours ordinances that impede necessary farming activities; the committee voted to recommend the bill not pass.
Representative Comteuil of Belknap District 7 introduced House Bill 272 to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, saying the measure is intended to protect agricultural operations from local ordinances that can unintentionally limit necessary farm work.
Comteuil told the committee that a prior session’s quiet-hours statute led some towns to rely instead on disturbance-of-the-peace ordinances that interfered with time-sensitive farm tasks such as crop spraying, sugaring operations and winter feeding. He said the…
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