Farmersville, TX Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

Sec. 44-50(g) singles out loading operations by name: the loading or unloading of any vehicle in a manner that causes a noise disturbance is a violation, without a time-of-day exception written into that subsection, unlike the construction-work rule in Sec. 44-50(h) which allows late work with city manager permission. A noise disturbance under Sec. 44-49 is sound that annoys or disturbs a reasonable, prudent adult or interferes with public peace and comfort, so a delivery truck's backup alarms, dropped pallets, or idling refrigeration unit outside a residential district or quiet zone late at night can be cited under this subsection.

Two related subsections reach the trucks themselves: Sec. 44-50(m) addresses engine braking, where retarding forces inside the engine slow the vehicle instead of friction brakes, and Sec. 44-50(n) specifically addresses jake braking, the compression-release braking common on large diesel trucks that vents compressed air through the exhaust valves, both treated as causing a noise disturbance. Sec. 44-50(l) separately bars discharging vehicle exhaust in a manner that causes a noise disturbance, except through a muffler that effectively controls loud and unusual noise. None of chapter 44's exemptions in Sec.

44-51 cover routine commercial deliveries, since that list is limited to emergency signals, public safety operations, natural phenomena, city-sanctioned public events, school-sanctioned activities, and locomotive sound.