Midwest City, OK Noise from Specific Sources: Car Alarm Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- §26-4(4), Chapter 26 (Noise)
- Covers
- car alarms, horns, sirens, alarm devices
- Exceptions
- genuine emergency, law enforcement, city permit
- Excluded from
- Chapter 36 alarm-system permit program
- Penalty basis
- municipal offense, daily/separate violations (§26-10)
Summary
Midwest City's noise ordinance makes it unlawful to sound a car alarm, horn or siren except as a genuine emergency warning or under a city manager permit, since vehicle alarms are excluded from the separate false-alarm program.
The following acts...are declared to be excessive or unusual noises in violation of this chapter...(4) Sounding of horns, whistles, sirens, firearms or other such alarm or announcement device, whether manual or power-operated, or the detonation of fireworks or explosives except as required as warning of fire, natural disaster or other impending or incidental danger, or which may be required as a part of law enforcement, by emergency, or as excepted by section 26-5.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 21).
Full Breakdown
Section 26-4(4) of the noise chapter bars sounding a horn, whistle, siren, or other alarm or announcement device except as a genuine warning of fire, disaster, or danger, for law enforcement, or under a city-manager permit issued under section 26-5. Car alarms fall here rather than under Chapter 36's alarm-system rules: section 36-32(2)(c) expressly excludes 'alarm devices affixed to motor vehicles' from that chapter's permit and false-alarm fee program, so an owner whose car alarm keeps going off is not billed under the burglar-alarm fee schedule -- they're exposed to a straight noise-ordinance violation instead.
Violations & Fines
Violating section 26-4 is a municipal offense under section 26-10; each day of continuous noise is one offense, and non-continuous violations count separately, even if committed on the same day.
Frequently Asked Questions
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