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Noise Ordinances in Pitt County, NC (2026)

5 rules for unincorporated Pitt County, North Carolina.

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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Pitt County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Quiet Hours

Pitt County's Noise Ordinance sets a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. quiet window for residential areas: Section 3(B)(5) bars repairing, rebuilding or testing any motor vehicle overnight in a way that disturbs residents' peace and comfort, and Table I separately lowers every receiving-property decibel cap during those same hours.

Pitt County Bars Loud Vehicle Repair After 10 PM

Some Restrictions

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Section 3(B)(5)

The repairing, rebuilding, or testing of any motor vehicle between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. within any residential area in such a manner as to disturb the peace, quiet, and comfort of the residents of the area.

Barking Dogs

Pitt County treats a barking dog or noisy bird as a Section 3(B)(6) violation once it makes 'frequent and long continued noise' that disturbs a neighbor's comfort and repose. The Sheriff's Office enforces the rule countywide as part of the general Noise Ordinance, with the same escalating civil penalties as other loud-noise violations.

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Bars Chronic Barking

Some Restrictions

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Section 3(B)(6)

The keeping of any animal or bird which, by such causing frequent and long continued noise, shall disturb the comfort and repose of any person in the vicinity.

Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound

Pitt County bans playing a radio, phonograph, amplified sound device, television or musical instrument at a volume that disturbs the quiet, comfort or repose of anyone in a nearby dwelling, hotel, nursing home or hospital. Section 3(B)(3) of the Noise Ordinance treats this as a violation enforced by the Sheriff's Office, on top of numeric caps Table I sets for the same sound sources.

Pitt County Limits Amplified Sound and Music Noise

Some Restrictions

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Section 3(B)(3)

The playing of any radio, phonograph, electronic amplified sound devices, television set or other machine or device for the producing or reproduction of sound, or musical instrument, in such manner or with such volume, as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any individual in any dwelling, hotel, retirement or nursing home, hospital or other type of residence.

Decibel Limits

Pitt County's Noise Ordinance caps sound at the receiving property line using Table I, a grid of maximum decibel levels by property type and time of day. Section 5(A) makes exceeding those numbers a violation regardless of the source, with residential limits as low as 40 dBA overnight and industrial property allowed up to 75 dBA at all times.

Pitt County Sets Decibel Limits by Zone

Some Restrictions

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Section 5(A); Table I

No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the operation of any source of sound on a particular category of property or any public space or right-of-way in such a manner as to create a sound level that exceeds the particular sound level limits set forth in Table 1, hereto attached and made a part hereof, when measured at or within the property line of the receiving property or the source of...

Vehicle Noise

Pitt County bans sounding a vehicle horn or signal device except as a danger signal, and prohibits any horn or signal device that produces an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or that sounds for an unnecessary, unreasonable length of time. The Noise Ordinance's Section 3(B)(2) treats this as a violation of the county's broader loud-noise prohibition, enforced countywide by the Sheriff's Office.

Pitt County Vehicle Horn and Signal Noise Ban

Some Restrictions

Pitt County Noise Ordinance Section 3(B)(2)

The sounding of any horn or signal device on any motor vehicle while not in motion, except as a danger signal if another motor vehicle is approaching apparently out of control, or if in motion only as a danger signal; the creation by means of any such signal device of any unreasonably loud or harsh sound; and the sounding of such device for any unnecessary and unreasonable period of time.

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