The Pahrump Town Board held a special meeting last Saturday to discuss a proposed noise ordinance for the town.

Several revisions were made to the original ordinance, introduced by Vice Chairman John McDonald, at the meeting.

McDonald used various ordinances from around the country as models, although this ordinance does not address the issue of animal noise.

The revised PTO 64 will be looked over by town Counsel Carl Joerger and re-introduced at a future regularly scheduled town board meeting.

Among the revisions agreed upon at the meeting is an allowance for the racetrack to operate until midnight.

A provision prohibiting the modification of vehicle muffler systems (some people modify or remove muffler systems to conserve on gas mileage) was removed.

The sixth provision of the ordinance, placing restrictions on construction activities on homes or roads only between certain hours, was also revised.

Construction is allowed in the revised ordinance to take place from one hour prior to sunrise to one hour after sunset.

A section forbidding loud and disruptive noise on any street that is adjacent to a school, institution of learning, hospital, church, or court was changed to include a provision that a sign informing residents of the ordinance had to be erected within 100 yards of the applicable facility.

A provision that forbids the operation, rebuilding, modifying, or testing of a motor vehicle, including a motorboat that is loud enough to disturb an adjacent residential property, was tweaked to include the specific hours of 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.

The prohibition of any fire alarm or car alarm to be set off, unless it is automatically shut off within 15 minutes, was also revised.

Fire alarms were taken out of that provision since fire department personnel are the only ones who are authorized to deactivate those alarms.

Finally, the penalty exacted for violating the ordinance was also changed, with the first offense being taken down a notch from a $50 fine to a warning at the responding officer's discretion.