5 rules for unincorporated Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Verified from official government sources
In unincorporated Kanawha County there's no decibel code or fixed quiet hours; the Sheriff enforces West Virginia's disorderly-conduct law, W. Va. Code §61-6-1b, against unreasonably loud noise. Charleston sets its own city noise rules.
W. Va. Code §61-6-1b
disturbs the peace of others by violent, profane, indecent or boisterous conduct or language or by the making of unreasonably loud noise that is intended to cause annoyance or alarm to another person
Unincorporated Kanawha County sets no construction-hour ordinance; daytime building work is generally unrestricted, limited only by the Sheriff-enforced disorderly-conduct law. Charleston and other cities impose their own construction-noise hours.
A chronically barking dog in unincorporated Kanawha County is handled as a noise nuisance through the Sheriff and the Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association, not a fixed minute threshold. Cities add their own animal-noise rules.
Neither West Virginia nor unincorporated Kanawha County bans or restricts leaf blowers. Gas blowers are legal, limited only by the general disorderly-conduct noise law if used to disturb neighbors late at night.
Amplified music in unincorporated Kanawha County has no decibel cap, but the Sheriff can treat loud sound intended to annoy neighbors as disorderly conduct under W. Va. Code §61-6-1b. Charleston permits and polices its own events.
W. Va. Code §61-6-1b
disturbs the peace of others by violent, profane, indecent or boisterous conduct or language or by the making of unreasonably loud noise that is intended to cause annoyance or alarm to another person
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