WYTHE LIKELY TO DISCARD NOISE LAW

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 13, 1993                   TAG: 9301130320
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
WYTHE LIKELY TO DISCARD NOISE LAW
Wythe County supervisors probably will do away Feb. 8 with a noise-control ordinance they adopted last month.
The board directed County Attorney Willard Lester to draw up still another proposed ordinance, this one regulating only amplified music and voice noise, after a delegation of people showed up Tuesday to object to the current one.
The ordinance approved by a 5-2 vote Dec. 8 already exempted religious or political gatherings, emergency signals, farm operations, firearms and animal noises and, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., lawn mowing, construction work, commercial and industrial activities.
People objecting to it also wanted race track, truck stop and other exemptions.
The board scheduled a public hearing for 9:30 a.m. Feb. 8 on rescinding the month-old ordinance and adopting the new one that Lester will draw up.
The ordinance came about mainly because of citizen complaints about noise from loud radios known as "boom boxes." - Southwest bureau

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB