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Resident urges Amelia County to revisit vehicle and ATV noise rules
Summary
James Hagen told the board he has repeatedly been fined under vehicle-noise subsections he says use distance-based standards; county staff confirmed the code uses 100- and 200-foot audible thresholds and said they will review whether vehicle/amplified-sound rules should match the 10 p.m.–6 a.m. time window used elsewhere in the code.
James Hagen, a county resident, told the Amelia County Board of Supervisors during public comment that existing vehicle-related noise provisions have resulted in enforcement actions on private property and asked the board to consider aligning those rules with the county’s standard time-based noise restrictions.
Hagen said, “For the last 8 years, I've been told that the timeline was 10PM to 6AM for noise ordinance,” and described multiple instances—some during daytime hours—when officers cited vehicle-mounted radios and ATVs on private property. He asked the board to “put [the…
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