Illinois Compiled Statutes
415 ILCS 5/ - Environmental Protection Act.
Title VI - Noise

(415 ILCS 5/Tit. VI heading)

(415 ILCS 5/23) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1023)
Sec. 23.

The General Assembly finds that excessive noise endangers
physical and emotional health and well-being, interferes with legitimate
business and recreational activities, increases construction costs,
depresses property values, offends the senses, creates public nuisances,
and in other respects reduces the quality of our environment.
It is the purpose of this Title to prevent noise which creates a public
nuisance.

(Source: P.A. 76-2429.)

(415 ILCS 5/24) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1024)
Sec. 24.

No person shall emit beyond the boundaries of his property any noise
that unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or with any lawful
business or activity, so as to violate any regulation or standard adopted
by the Board under this Act.

(Source: P.A. 76-2429.)

(415 ILCS 5/25) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1025)
Sec. 25.

The Board, pursuant to the procedures prescribed in Title VII of
this Act, may adopt regulations prescribing limitations on noise emissions
beyond the boundaries of the property of any person and prescribing
requirements and standards for equipment and procedures for monitoring
noise and the collection, reporting and retention of data resulting from
such monitoring.
The Board shall, by regulations under this Section, categorize the
types and sources of noise emissions that unreasonably interfere with
the enjoyment of life, or with any lawful business, or activity, and
shall prescribe for each such category the maximum permissible limits on
such noise emissions. The Board shall secure the co-operation of the
Department in determining the
categories of noise emission and the technological and economic
feasibility of such noise level limits.
In establishing such limits, the Board, in addition to considering
those factors set forth in Section 27 of this Act, shall consider the
adverse ecological effects on and interference with the enjoyment of
natural, scenic, wilderness or other outdoor recreational areas, parks,
and forests occasioned by noise emissions from automotive, mechanical,
and other sources and may establish lower permissible noise levels
applicable to sources in such outdoor recreational uses.
No Board standards for monitoring noise or regulations prescribing
limitations on noise emissions shall apply to any organized amateur or
professional sporting activity except as otherwise provided in this
Section. Baseball, football or soccer sporting events
played during
nighttime hours, by professional athletes, in a city with more than
1,000,000 inhabitants, in a stadium at which such nighttime events were not
played prior to July 1, 1982, shall be subject to nighttime noise emission
regulations promulgated by the Illinois Pollution Control Board; however,
the following events shall not be subject to such regulations:
(1) baseball World Series games, league championship series games and
other playoff games played after the conclusion of the regular season, and
baseball All Star games; and
(2) sporting events or other events held in a stadium which replaces a
stadium not subject to such regulations and constructed within 1500 yards
of the original stadium by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.
For purposes of this Section and Section 24, "beyond the boundaries
of his property" or "beyond the boundaries of the property of any
person" includes personal property as well as real property.

(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)