Noise from Specific Sources in Yakima County, WA (2026)
2 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Yakima County, Washington.
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Car Alarm Limits
Yakima County's noise ordinance treats a car alarm as a warning device: it is exempt from the county's noise-disturbance ban only while sounding, and only for up to thirty minutes per incident. An alarm that keeps sounding past that becomes an enforceable noise violation.
Yakima County Car Alarm Noise Rules
Light RestrictionsYakima County Code § 6.28.040(10)
(10) Sounds created by warning devices not operated continuously for more than thirty minutes per incident; (11) Sounds created by the operation of equipment or facilities of surface carriers engaged in commerce by operating on the railroad; (12) Sounds created by construction or refuse removal equipment; (13) Sounds originated from officially sanctioned parades and other public even...
Generator Noise
Running a generator loud enough to be plainly audible inside a neighbor's dwelling, or generated within 200 feet of one, is unlawful noise under YCC § 6.28.030 if it annoys or disturbs. Generators get no carve-out in the county's exemption list, unlike lawn equipment or construction machinery.
Yakima County Generator Noise Rules
Some RestrictionsYakima County Code § 6.28.030
It is unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued or any person in possession of property to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued or allow to originate from the property any sound which: (a) Is plainly audible within any dwelling unit which is not the source of the sound or is generated within two hundred feet of any dwelling unit; (b) Either annoys, ...
Noise from Specific Sources by City in Yakima County
1 cities in Yakima County have their own noise from specific sources rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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