Jessamine County, KY Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

The Jessamine County Fiscal Court has no delivery-truck section. The closest rule in the Noise Control Ordinance (Chapter 92) is § 92.36(D), "Loading and unloading." It makes it a violation of the chapter to load, unload, open, close or otherwise handle boxes, crates, containers, building materials, garbage cans or similar objects between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day in a manner that causes a noise disturbance exceeding a sound duration level of L50 for a 15-minute time span that can be heard within 10 feet of the walls of an adjacent residential dwelling.

The text covers the handling of cargo, not the truck as such. Slamming doors, dropping crates, dragging containers or emptying garbage cans overnight is the conduct described. The section does not mention engines, refrigeration units or backup alarms, and it sets no daytime limit of its own. A delivery at 10:00 a.m. is outside the quoted window. Sounding a truck horn for an unnecessary and unreasonable period of time on a street or public place is separately a violation under § 92.36(F).

Two features narrow the rule. First, the noise must reach an adjacent residential dwelling, so a loading dock next to another business does not trigger it on that basis alone. Second, § 92.04 defines noise disturbance as sound judged by the Enforcement Officer to be intrusive. Under § 92.37 that judgment weighs the time of day, proximity of residential structures, whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent or constant, the character and zoning of the area, and whether the noise is related to the normal operation of a business or other labor activity. The last factor means that business operations are considered, not exempted. Whether the noise could be controlled without unreasonable effort or expense also counts.

Noise from farm livestock, farm machinery or other activities relating to an agricultural operation is exempt under § 92.20, which covers farm deliveries. A business that cannot avoid night loading can ask for a hardship permit under § 92.16 or a variance under § 92.17, which is limited to 365 days and requires a separate application for each noise source, though several mobile sources under common ownership can be combined into one application.