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- BUSINESS, Page 63Business NotesREGULATIONSMuffling the Boom Cars
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- The hills are alive with the sound of music -- and folks
- from Florida to Hawaii have had just about enough of it. Many
- communities have decided that so-called boom cars, with their
- high-power and multispeaker stereo systems, pose an increasing
- threat to health, safety and sanity. The response: local laws
- tailored to tone down the boom-car boom.
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- In Fort Lauderdale the racket from a boom car is illegal if
- it can be heard beyond 50 ft. from the vehicle. In California a
- similar law went into effect Jan. 1. Car-stereo merchants seem
- to think customers will have just as much fun without pumping
- the volume to law-breaking -- not to mention earsplitting --
- levels. Remarks Stephen Seidl of Fort Lauderdale's Speaker
- Warehouse: "We advise our clients not to abuse the power."
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