Everyone who lives in such buildings has the right to a quiet regime in an apartment building. Federal Law No. 52 regulates legal norms and the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of residents. The legislative act indicates the interval when noisy work can be done and the period for stopping musical and other sounds that modern technical equipment is capable of producing. In each subject, the time may be different with respect to the regime of silence in an apartment building, but it must be respected regardless of the region.
How does noise affect a person?
There are sanitary standards when a loud sound does not adversely affect a person’s hearing and his health. According to the standards:
- 55 dB should not exceed during the day;
- 45 dB - the body rests at night.
Residents bear administrative responsibility for violating the silence regime in an apartment building. Depending on the reason, you may complain:
- Rospotrebnadzor;
- Sanitary and Epidemiological Service;
- to the local inspector.
To imagine when the mode is actually violated, you need to compare:
- 55 dB - creates a passing car;
- 75 dB - audible from carpet cleaning with a vacuum cleaner;
- 95 dB - the punch works;
- 120 dB - hammer the walls with a jackhammer;
- 75 dB - small children cry;
- 45 dB - people usually talk;
- 30 dB - a secret passes in a whisper to a friend.
Depending on the location of the buildings to the railways, highways, the silence regime in the apartment building itself is not the norm, but the standard can be increased by 10 dB.
Features of legislative recommendations
The legislator, while developing legal acts, in no way tries to limit the rights and freedoms of citizens. It should be noted that the main law on the regime of silence in apartment buildings is the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Based on this regulation, all legislative provisions are created. They are given the right to all citizens to have their own personal lives. During the day they can:
- children get sick and cry;
- urgently repaired communications, structures in the building;
- cleaning is done;
- come guests and start the feast.
The law does not require the population to speak quietly and walk in their own apartment, but decency is necessary. When a neighbor arrives with a request to turn off the punch for an hour, since a restless baby has fallen asleep, each builder will understand, will do another, less noisy job.
Normal working day
In the afternoon, the time of silence does not extend from 7 to 23. A similar requirement is accepted throughout Russia. No one forbids establishing their own rules in the regions. Suppose the silence mode in Novosibirsk in an apartment building is not limited from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. On holidays and weekends, you can turn on the music loudly from 9 in the morning and stop the feast at 22 o’clock.
Night time
At night, for many people, a period begins when peace is necessary so that:
- to fall asleep;
- take a break from hard physical or mental work;
- pain symptoms gone.
Scandals, loud music or the operation of household appliances during inopportune times destroy the nervous system. At the request of residents, many entities set their own restrictions. For example, the regime and silence in an apartment building in the Moscow region is of particular importance to its inhabitants. For the population in large cities, silence is considered a luxury, since large-scale construction is deployed around. After settling, the owners still repair and rebuild for a long time, and behind the wall there are often small children and old people with a whole bunch of diseases.
What restrictions are set?
Lawmakers had to amend the law on silence for the comfort of Muscovites and regional residents of high-rise buildings. In July 2018, the silence mode was established in the apartment building on the weekend - Saturday and Sunday from 19 p.m. to 10 a.m. On ordinary days, you can start repair work from 8 in the morning, and finish them at 21.00. After restriction it is forbidden to use:
- sound-reproducing devices and amplifiers in transport, retail facilities, in tasks with the location of public catering, in restaurants and cafes, so as not to disturb the peace of citizens;
- playing musical instruments, singing, screaming, whistling, swearing;
- loading and unloading of goods, repairs, construction works, where loudly working tools are used.
A quiet hour has been announced from 13 to 15 at lunchtime for residential premises and objects located close to them.
What awaits troublemakers?
For violation of the silence regime in residential apartment buildings, liability is provided. Such misconduct is administrative and punishable by penalties. If a citizen himself cannot calm down a neighbor, he turns to law enforcement agencies, which for the first time verbally warn of non-compliance with legislative norms. For repeated noisy behavior during inopportune time, a fine of 500 rubles is written. For legal entities, if an institution is located in their apartment building, a penalty of 40,000 rubles is prescribed. When measures do not apply, more stringent sanctions will be applied. The institution may cease to exist, and substantial compensation will be assigned to the neighbor. In St. Petersburg, even individuals can suffer losses up to 50,000 rubles. The best option is an attempt to negotiate peacefully with noisy people, not to bring to trial. Anyway, the eviction of owners from their only housing for noise is not provided for in our legislation.
Who accepts complaints?
In large cities, where there are housing management companies, various cooperatives and partnerships, their leaders should help to influence high-profile neighbors. It is difficult for people in critical situations when an seriously ill person or small children lie in the apartment, who can hardly be put to sleep. Usually, Rospotrebnadzor receives complaints from residents and is engaged in considering applications. The employees have instruments for measuring noise, they will draw up an act that will serve as evidence for appeal to the court. Applications must be submitted in the following order:
- management organization;
- Rospotrebnadzor body;
- police Department;
- to the prosecutor;
- court of law.
For the court, a documentary evidence base should be collected, fit:
- testimonies of neighbors who are also disturbed by noise;
- recorded appeals to various departments for help;
- an act drawn up by a local police officer.
For repeated requests to stop noisy feasts or turn off musical works through amplifiers, they must be fixed to recording devices. The court needs reliable facts, supported by documents on paper or electronic media.
When is the law breaking?
The time or silence in an apartment building is important to observe. However, each rule has its own exceptions. What silence can we talk about if a gas leak has occurred and urgent repairs are required? In this case, the lives of many people are at stake. Allowed to make noise:
- during the prevention of criminal acts by criminal elements;
- during the liquidation of accidents, fires, natural disasters;
- when a religious ceremony, sporting or cultural event is held in specially designated places.
Sometimes children are baptized at home, but such actions do not cause much interference. For the holidays, there are also limitations, on New Year's Eve it is better to agree with the neighbors, provided that the violations do not develop into a fight and a scandal with guests.
In what order do they go to the police?
Every mobile phone has emergency calls for everyone to see. If the neighbors are not making noise for the first time, and no exhortations help, then you need to call to call a police outfit. Citizens who have used such measures to protect their rights recommend that no threats be taken. You should not warn in advance about your intentions, if there is a drunken company behind the door, they can go on to physical abuse. The police are contacted in the presence of circumstances:
- disorder occurs repeatedly;
- a peaceful resolution to the conflict has been undertaken;
- noise exceeded permissible norms.
The application is written in any form on a regular sheet of paper.
When regular feasts take place without a reason, there is no reaction to warnings, you need to prepare for the collection of materials for the court. When the police arrive, they need to be required to record their arrival with an act, they must give one copy to the applicant. Citizens without principles will still not rest on their laurels, violations will continue, and only the court will be able to provide assistance. Without evidence that all possible instances have been passed, the application will not be accepted. Written appeals are suitable as evidence, for this it is necessary to keep a copy with the mark of the department for which it was intended.
Any conflict begins easily and quickly, but it is difficult to end it. Courts of law at any level require resolving disputes on the ground in a peaceful manner. Perhaps for a specific situation, the appearance of people in uniform is enough, it will prove that the intentions are serious, and the fight against the violator of silence will continue until the victorious end.