Building codes, municipal bylaws, and industry specific best practice requirements not withstanding,
noise control remains only minimally regulated.

Disputes about noise disturbance from residential or
commercial neighbors fall under the nebulous
common law category Nuisance, and even structural
noise problems (often due to building design
incongruence with purchaser expectations) can prove
difficult to resolve. Open to a considerable breadth of
interpretation, the parameters of “excessive” noise
sometimes require third-party, scientific objectivity
when disagreements occur.