Noise Ordinances in Racine County, WI (2026)

Racine County Code § 13-26

No person shall engage in any noisy activity on public or private property that tends to annoy, disturb or otherwise irritate any neighboring tenant or person legally entitled to possession thereof, except for the reasonable noise which occurs in the normal course of reasonable human activity.

Racine County Code §§ 20-1061, 20-1063

This chapter permits specific uses in specific districts; and these performance standards are designed to limit, restrict, and prohibit the effects of those uses outside their premises or district...All noise shall be so muffled or otherwise controlled as not to become objectionable due to intermittance, duration, beat frequency, impulse character, periodic character or shrillness.

Racine County Code § 13-27

No person shall operate a snow vehicle, or any other recreational vehicle such as a dirt bike or trail bike, without a functioning muffler or in such a manner so as to create unreasonable or excessive combustion noise. (Code 1975, § 12.032) Cross reference(s)—Schedule of deposits for violation of the provisions in this section, § 5-3. State law reference(s)—Similar provisions, W.S.A., §§ 347.39...