Cappetto added that since officers do not carry decibel readers, this situation would “likely be a civil issue that they’d want to go to the courts and request that a judge mandate they take ...

Essex Council provisionally passed By-law 2242, to repeal and replace By-law 2038, to prohibit and regulate noise in the Town of Essex.

Town leaders said those numbers would be enforced through two consecutive readings with a decibel reader taken from the property line. "Even with the quiet time decibels we have set in place ...