Lawton, OK Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

' That reaches the classic delivery-truck complaint, pallet jacks, dock plates, hand trucks, box breakdown and crate demolition, whenever the resulting racket is loud and excessive rather than merely audible. The paragraph carries no clock: it doesn't set separate daytime and nighttime hours the way the construction paragraph does, so a delivery that creates loud and excessive dock noise can be cited any time it occurs, day or night, if it meets that standard. Because paragraph 8 is one of the examples listed under the general prohibition in Section 16-4-2-423, which reaches noise that 'unreasonably, continuously or substantially annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others,' a single loud unloading event doesn't need to be continuous to violate the code; the code's own language of 'creation' of the noise is enough.

Businesses that receive frequent deliveries near residential property are the paragraph's most common target, and Lawton Police Department officers or code enforcement can act on a resident complaint under this section without a separate decibel reading.