                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPLICABILITY OF LOCAL NOISE ORDINANCES TO CERTAIN SPORT SHOOTING RANGES (§
15.2-917)

A. No local ordinance regulating any noise shall subject a sport shooting range
to noise control standards more stringent than those in effect at its effective
date. The operation or use of a sport shooting range shall not be enjoined on
the basis of noise, nor shall any person be subject to action for nuisance or
criminal prosecution in any matter relating to noise resulting from the
operation of the range, if the range is in compliance with all ordinances
relating to noise in effect at the time construction or operation of the range
was approved, or at the time any application was submitted for the construction
or operation of the range.

B. Any sport shooting range operating or approved for construction within the
Commonwealth, which has been condemned through an eminent domain proceeding by
any condemning entity, and which relocates to another site within the same
locality within two years of the final condemnation order, shall not be
subjected to any noise control standard more stringent than those in effect at
the effective date of such sport shooting range.

C. For purposes of this section, &#8220;sport shooting range&#8221; means an
area or structure designed for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols,
silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any other similar sport shooting.
			For purposes of this section, &#8220;effective date&#8221; means the time the
construction or operation of the sports shooting range initially was approved,
or at the time any application was submitted for the construction or operation
of the sports shooting range, whichever is earliest.

HISTORY: 1990, cc. 541, 577, § 15.1-29.20; 1997, c. 587; 2005, c. 544; 2006, c.
704.