Noise from Specific Sources in Kansas City, MO (2026)

Kansas City Code of Ordinances § 46-4(a)

No person shall make, cause, suffer, continue, allow or permit the operation of any source of sound on any receiving property in such a manner as to create a sound level that equals or exceeds the sound level limits set forth in table I, when measured at the real property boundary or within the real property lines of any of the receiving properties listed in table I.

Kansas City Code of Ordinances § 46-5(8)

No person shall operate, play or permit the operation or playing of any radio, television, music player, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces or amplifies sound at a sound level greater than 85 db(A) as read by the slow response on a sound level meter at any point that is normally occupied by a customer in any place of public entertainment with ...

Kansas City Code of Ordinances § 46-26(8)

Data centers (facilities operated by a business engaged primarily in data processing, hosting, and related services with installed electrical equipment having the capacity to draw at least 50 MW of demand) that are not exceeding sound levels of 80 dBA when measured at their real property boundary, excluding all ambient noise and noise caused by generators in the event of a power outage or inter...

Kansas City Code of Ordinances § 46-3

Plainly audible means any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her unaided hearing faculties of normal acuity. As an example, if the sound source under investigation is a portable or vehicular sound amplification or reproduction device, the detection of the rhythmic bass component of the music is sufficient to verify plainly audible sound. The noise control officer or police offi...