Motorcycle noise ordinance not being enforced

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20100705motorcycle_noise_ordinance_not_being_enforced/srvc=home&position=recent Motorcycle noise ordinance not being enforced By Shir Haberman / Seacoastonline.com Monday, July 5, 2010 -

E-mail Print (6) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. — Those who developed the motorcycle noise ordinance passed by voters in May point to the success of an almost identical ordinance in Boston as the basis for their argument the town’s ordinance can — and should — be enforced.

The town previously received three legal opinions — from its legal counsel, the organization that indemnifies the town against lawsuits and the Rockingham County Attorney — indicating the ordinance is not enforceable. And now, the success of the Boston ordinance is being questioned, reports the Portsmouth Herald.

Calls to police and a city councilor’s office in that city indicate Boston’s ordinance is the subject of a lawsuit and police there have yet to try to enforce it.

"As of this time, we are not enforcing it," Officer Eddy Crispin of the Boston Police Department’s media relations group said Wednesday.