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to enforce this?" asked Wood.
“How come the law can’t come up there and check on it?’’ Smoot demanded. He claimed that he’d called deputy John Henry Woodward last Friday night and that he’d refused to come up to the community center.
The deputy and sheriff W. A. Buntin both countered that Woodward hadn’t refused to come; that he’d only told Smoot he couldn’t close the center down without authorization from the commonwealth’s attorney.
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(According to the sheriff, he and his deputies have checked the community center well over 100 times in the past five years in response to Smoot’s complaints. Buntin said he found things “a little loud” on a “very few times during the summer.”)
(In each instance, the . parties using the center were asked to turn down the music and they immediately complied, according to the sheriff. "We’ve never caught anyone parked in the cemetery or in Mr. Smoot’s driveway,” he said, adding that the state police also have investigated Smoot’s noise complaints a hundred or so times with the same results.)
To reduce noise, Ruth Kilby suggested that the use of amplifiers be discontinued.
As for enforcing noise restrictions, Konick said that decibel level readings could be taken at the adjoining property line and if the meter registers over the limit, the dance could be closed down.
“Next thing you know, we’ll have people checking on my cows at weaning time because they’re too noisy!” joked supervisor Wood.
The board agreed to continue consideration of the proposed dance hall ordinance at the December 7 meeting. After he volunteered, the supervisors also decided to have Konick get quotations on noise meter prices and bring the information to next month’s session.
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