Youngstown, OH Noise from Specific Sources: Bar & Nightclub Noise (2026)
Key Facts
- Curfew hours
- 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
- Covered businesses
- Bars, night clubs, bowling alleys, drive-ins
- Buffer distance
- Within 500 feet of housing
- Penalty
- Misdemeanor, fourth degree
- Enforcing agency
- Youngstown Police Department
- Code section
- § 509.10(b)(11), Chapter 509
Summary
In the City of Youngstown, Ohio, Codified Ordinance Section 509.10(b)(11) bars beer parlors, night clubs, drive-in restaurants, bowling alleys and open-air theaters in or near residential areas from emitting loud or offensive noise between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. The curfew covers any such business within five hundred feet of a home, apartment house or rooming house, and a violation is a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
(11) The conducting, operating or maintaining of any beer parlor, night club or other place of business where beer, wine or intoxicating liquor is sold, drive-in restaurants, bowling alleys, open air theatres or any other kind of business, in any residential district so as to cause or permit loud or offensive noises to be emitted therefrom at any time between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. so as to disturb or keep awake persons residing in the immediate vicinity. "Residential district" as used in this subsection shall apply to any beer parlor, night club or other place of business where beer, wine or intoxicating liquor is sold, drive-in restaurant, bowling alley, open-air theatre or any other kind of business in any residential district or located within five hundred feet of any building used as a private residence, apartment house or rooming house.
Full Breakdown
Section 509.10(b)(11) is one of eleven specific examples the City Council pre-declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise under the general ban in subsection (a). It names beer parlors, night clubs, and any other place of business selling beer, wine or intoxicating liquor, plus drive-in restaurants, bowling alleys and open-air theaters, and bars them from causing or permitting loud or offensive noise to be emitted between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. if it disturbs or keeps awake people living nearby. The ordinance defines the covered residential district broadly for this paragraph: it reaches any such business located in a residential district, or within five hundred feet of a building used as a private residence, apartment house or rooming house, a wider buffer than the one-hundred-foot rule that applies to the garage curfew in paragraph (10) of the same subsection.
Outside the 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. window, a bar or club can still be cited under the general prohibition in subsection (a) if its noise is loud, disturbing and unnecessary at any other hour. Youngstown Police officers responding to complaints from residents near downtown's Federal Street entertainment strip or neighborhood taverns document the time, the source and the distance to housing to support a citation under this paragraph.
Violations & Fines
Operating a beer parlor, night club or similar business so its noise disturbs residents between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. is a fourth-degree misdemeanor under Section 509.10(c). Youngstown Municipal Court applies the fine and jail exposure set at Section 501.99. The Youngstown Police Department cites the business owner or operator, and repeated citations can support a separate nuisance case against the property.
Frequently Asked Questions
How late can a Youngstown bar play loud music near homes?
Does the curfew apply to bowling alleys and drive-in restaurants too?
What if the bar is more than 500 feet from any house?
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