Noise from Specific Sources in Carteret County, NC (2026)

Carteret County Zoning Ordinance § 3009.2

3009.2. Support equipment that might generate loud noise, such as air compressors and air conditioning equipment, that is located out-of-doors adjacent to a residential use or district shall be installed in a sound-reducing enclosure, buffer, or on the roof of the primary building. If installed on a roof or other elevated location, the equipment shall be screened from view of the adjacent resid...

Carteret County Code § 10-1(b)(2), (c), (e)(1)

The sounding of any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle while not in motion, except as a danger signal if another vehicle is approaching apparently out of control, or if in motion only as a danger signal. ... The noise is of such character, intensity and duration as to be detrimental to health, safety or welfare of an individual with normal hearing and of n...

Carteret County Code § 10-1(b)(6), (e)(3)

The playing of any radio, cassette player, compact disc, videotape or disc or other similar device for reproducing sound located on or in any motor vehicle on a public street, highway, within any public vehicular area, within the motor vehicular area of any public or private parking lot or park or on the premises of a private residence in an unreasonably loud, annoying, disturbing or unnecessar...