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Originally Posted by BushBaby
I am with Chiri on the noise, smoke & garbage problems. Create a Police (or similar empowered) force to issue on the spot fines - RD $500 being for payment on service of notice! If the person elects to go through the courts (i.e. he disputes the issue of notice) he pays a minimum of RD $10,000 if found guilty PLUS Court costs! The income derived from this will pay for the cost of the force plus a fair chunk of the National Debt I would think!! - Grahame.
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Grahame, I seem to recall my suegra telling me that when they issued noise regulations (national, or just SD? I can't recall) on generators in the late 1980s, the police were actually given sound meters and went around ticketing people based on meter readings, and it forced alot of people in her neighborhood to seek out quieter units or place the ones they had in sheds or containers with soundproofing.
Wonder whatever happened to all that? Why can't such enforcement efforts be sustained in the DR?
Musing,
Keith