The mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, proposed to submit to the Moscow State Duma a bill setting a minimum fine of 5,000 rubles for “deliberate violation of silence”, linking sanctions to the capacity of cars and the evacuate such vehicles. He wrote about this in his blog in August last year:
“Individual” frozen “motorists got Muscovites. All night they drive under the windows on cars and motorcycles without mufflers and with loud music.
In the capital, they even launched several cameras in test mode in combination with sound meters. The sound of a faulty exhaust is equated with noise (limit 96-100 dBA for different categories of cars), as well as music played by on-board systems.
Sanctions for noise still exist: citizens can be fined under part 1 of art. 6.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation for 100-500 rubles. for violating “current sanitary rules and hygiene standards” – nighttime noise also falls under this concept. Probably it was this standard that Sobyanin had in mind when he said that for owners of expensive motorcycles and cars this is “like a death compress”.
In addition, in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Capital, Art. 3.13 “Breach of the peace of the citizens.” According to this article, violators for noise from 23:00 to 07:00 will face a warning or a fine of 1-2 thousand rubles. But more often they scare the organizers of noisy repair work in residential buildings (from 19:00 to 09:00 and from 13:00 to 15:00), although it also applies to motorists, including the chaotic operation of an alarm ‘at night.
But as for vehicles, it is extremely difficult to enforce such violations, so the authorities are going to make sure that violators of silence can be fined automatically and in completely different amounts. Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Davankov even proposed to introduce a fine of 100,000 rubles for noisy drivers, and in case of repeated violation, to evacuate a car or motorcycle. Well, if even here the driver doesn’t improve, send him to public works for a period of a week.
It is proposed to identify offenders using sound meters built into traffic cameras, so that they can determine for themselves which vehicle the noise is coming from, photograph the license plate of the car or motorcycle and impose a fine. However, the discussion on this initiative has so far stalled.