Boone County, IN Ordinances (2026)

Unincorporated Boone County's Housing Provisions ordinance directly bans applying lead-based paint to any surface in a dwelling, dwelling unit or rooming house, and separately requires…

Boone County's building code adopts the Indiana Electrical Rules, 1981 Edition, which incorporate the 1981 National Electrical Code, as the standard governing electrical construction…

Boone County's building code adopts the Indiana Plumbing Rules, 1981 Edition, which incorporate the 1979 Uniform Plumbing Code, as the standard governing plumbing installation and…

Boone County requires a building permit before starting construction, alteration or repair on any commercial, industrial, public-use, accessory or residential building within the Area…

Once Boone County issues a building permit, the Building Inspector must inspect the work for compliance with the building subchapter and permit terms, charging up to a $10 reinspection…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, a child day-care center may not open by right: it needs a special exception (conditional use permit) from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Once…

Boone County, Indiana requires every mobile food establishment operating in unincorporated Boone County to hold a valid permit from the Health Officer before selling food. The permit…

Boone County, Indiana requires anyone operating a massage school, massage parlor, massage therapy clinic or bath house in unincorporated Boone County to hold a license issued by the…

Boone County, Indiana regulates every business that tattoos, pierces or otherwise modifies the body in unincorporated Boone County under Chapter 113, requiring a Health Department…

Boone County Code § 157.182 bars any adult entertainment business from locating within 1,000 feet of another such business or within 600 feet of a church, school, day care center…

Boone County's zoning ordinance flatly excludes vehicle-related businesses from its home occupation allowance. Table 10 to Code § 157.035 lists all uses associated with vehicle…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, occupants and owners of dwellings carry a direct legal duty to exterminate rats and insects on their own premises, and owners are on the hook…

Unincorporated Boone County's zoning ordinance sets a 20-foot minimum front yard and a 5-foot minimum side yard for single-family homes in nearly every zoning district, with a 20-foot…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, single-family homes are capped at 35 feet across every residential zoning district, from Agricultural to General Business. Code § 157.007(B)…

Boone County Code Section 157.007(B)'s single-family requirements table caps lot coverage at 50% in the Agricultural and Rural Equestrian districts, 60% in the R1 and R2 residential…

Unincorporated Boone County, Indiana requires a floodplain development permit before any building, filling, or grading in a special flood hazard area under Boone County Code § 152.12…

Boone County requires new or substantially improved residential structures in a special flood hazard area to elevate the lowest floor, including any basement, to or above the Flood…

Boone County Code Section 53.021 bars discharging any substance other than stormwater into a county MS4 conveyance, watercourse or waterbody, and the Boone County Drainage Board and…

Boone County requires a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan with erosion and sediment control measures for any project disturbing 10,000 square feet or more of land, under Code…

Unincorporated Boone County's zoning code defines a garage, rummage or yard sale as the sale of personal property from a residentially occupied site, and caps each individual sale at…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, a dog that excessively barks, howls, or whines so as to cause unreasonable disturbance to neighbors is a public nuisance animal under County…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, construction, demolition or repair work on buildings and the excavation for them is unlawful noise outside 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, playing a radio, TV, musical instrument or other sound device louder than needed for the people in the room or vehicle where it sits is…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, discharging exhaust noise from a motorcycle, car, or other motor vehicle without an effective muffler is unlawful under the Board of…

Boone County's noise ordinance does not reach aircraft, airport or train noise. Section 92.05(D) exempts sounds ordinarily associated with aircrafts, airports and trains from the…

Boone County Code Section 157.036(F) caps industrial noise at 70 decibels measured at any boundary line of a residential or business district, excluding background traffic noise. A…

Boone County Code § 93.10 bars tobacco use inside any county-owned structure and within 100 feet of the front entrances of the Boone County Jail, County Annex, and Courthouse, plus at…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, skateboards, in-line skates and roller skates are expressly banned on the Courthouse Square in Lebanon under County Code § 70.01. The Board of…

Boone County's Board of Commissioners bans carrying or drinking alcohol, along with any deadly weapon, inside the Boone County Courthouse and other county-owned buildings under Code…

Boone County's Unified Zoning Ordinance confines veterinary animal hospitals and clinics to business and industrial districts. Table 2, Authorized Uses lets them operate by right only…

Every domestic animal six months or older that permanently lives in unincorporated Boone County with an owner based in the county must carry permanent identification at all times…

Boone County does not license cats or restrict outdoor cats by ordinance. The county code instead defines colonies, feral cats and managed colonies, and expressly excludes colonies and…

Boone County's animal code discourages chaining a dog but does not ban it: a chained dog needs at least a 12-foot chain regardless of size, one that will not injure its neck and can…

Unincorporated Boone County, Indiana does not cap a few backyard chickens or horses; raising livestock and poultry is a permitted agricultural use countywide. But Boone County Code…

Building a single-family home in Boone County's AG General Agricultural district requires recording a commitment invoking Indiana's Right-to-Farm Law: the homeowner must agree that…

When a new single-family home goes up on unplatted ground in Boone County's Agricultural District, Boone County Code Section 157.062(A)(3)(a) requires the homeowner to record a…

Unincorporated Boone County has no blanket on-street parking rule; instead the Board of Commissioners designates individual no-parking zones street by street in Chapter 72, Schedule I…

In unincorporated Boone County, the Royal Run subdivision carries its own snow-parking rule: once at least two inches of snow accumulate in a 24-hour period, parking on any public road…

Commercial and industrial uses in unincorporated Boone County, Indiana must provide dedicated loading berths under Code § 157.033(K)(5), each sized at 12 feet by 45 feet with a 14-foot…

Boone County's zoning code bars inoperable, unplated cars and trailers from open storage on residential lots. Under Code § 157.033(A)(3), a vehicle without plates left in a…

Unincorporated Boone County makes it unlawful to cast, place or deposit litter on someone else's property without the owner's or lessee's consent, under County Code § 90.04(A). The…

Unincorporated Boone County makes it unlawful for anyone in control of a property to let a refuse, garbage or water container sit uncollected or unemptied for more than 15 days, or…

In the U.S. 421 - Michigan Road Corridor Overlay District, Boone County Code § 157.204(O)(1) requires trash and recycling collection areas to be located at the rear of every building…

Unincorporated Boone County requires anyone who owns, leases or occupies a house, building or premises, including a vacant lot visible from a public place, to keep it in a reasonably…

Boone County adopts Indiana's Unsafe Building Law, I.C. 36-7-9-1 through 9-28, to police unsafe buildings and premises. Once the county's enforcement authority inspects a structure and…

Boone County requires a right-of-way permit before anyone builds a sidewalk, pathway, trail or multi-use path in the highway system's right-of-way. The Highway Engineer reviews and…

Boone County's housing code defines WEEDS as vegetation reaching 12 inches or more that creates a rat harborage or other health hazard. Owners of dwellings with three or more units…

Boone County doesn't require a building permit for a residential fence under five feet tall; § 151.35 exempts it, along with small farm buildings and mini-storage barns under 80 square…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, retaining walls are on the county's own list of exempt accessory structures: Board of Commissioners' Code § 157.021(C) lets homeowners build…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, fences under six feet do not need an improvement location permit under Boone County Code § 157.140(C). On corner lots, § 156.072(J)(1)…

Boone County levies a 5% innkeeper's tax on every hotel, motel or inn renting rooms for stays under 30 days, on top of Indiana's state gross retail tax, under Boone County Code Section…

Boone County exempts temporary campaign signs from its sign ordinance for a defined window: Code § 157.038(B)(6)(g) allows display for not more than one month before an election and…

Boone County Code § 157.205(Q)(2)(a) bans off-premise, outdoor-advertising signs anywhere in the I-65 Interstate 65 South Corridor Overlay District. Incidental signs at commercial or…

Boone County's sign ordinance exempts window signs, along with banners and flags, from the requirement that every sign be built of permanent material and permanently attached to a…

Boone County's sign ordinance exempts holiday lights and decorations that carry no commercial message from sign regulation entirely. Under Code § 157.038(B)(6)(e), a homeowner or…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, the Area Plan Commission can grant a density bonus waiver for single-family, two-family and multi-family development under Boone County Code §…

Building an in-ground swimming pool in unincorporated Boone County, Indiana requires an improvement location permit (ILP). Code § 157.021(F)(3) puts in-ground pools on the list of…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, an in-ground swimming pool must have a 5-foot fence around the pool area, or a mechanical pool cover, under Code § 157.021(F)(3). Because that…

In unincorporated Boone County, Indiana, a storage shed over 50 square feet needs an improvement location permit (ILP). Code § 157.021(F)(1) lists sheds alongside garages, gazebos and…

Boone County Code Section 157.063(C) requires an accessory dwelling unit to stay under the same ownership as the primary home. It can never be sold off as a separate parcel, and either…

Boone County Code Section 157.063 lets one accessory dwelling unit go on a parcel that already has a primary home, capped between 400 square feet and the lesser of 1,500 square feet or…

Outdoor lighting in unincorporated Boone County, Indiana must match the design of the building and surrounding land use under Code § 157.032, and any spot or flood light has to be…

Boone County allows home-based businesses in unincorporated areas only as a home occupation under zoning Code § 157.035, and only if the use stays incidental to the residence. The…

A home occupation in unincorporated Boone County cannot display goods or other outward evidence of the business, per Code § 157.035(B)(9), and any sign is capped at the residential…

Boone County's zoning table for home occupations names a day care center as a prohibited use. Under Table 10 to Code § 157.035, day care centers sit alongside clinics, funeral homes…

Chapter 155 of the Boone County Code, the Housing and Environmental Standards Ordinance, applies uniformly to every residential building in unincorporated Boone County, Indiana. It…