Nicholasville, KY Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)
Key Facts
- Loading and handling window
- 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. under § 12-10(b)(4)
- Refuse collection window
- 10:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. under § 12-10(b)(5)
- Trigger
- Noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary
- Fine
- $25 to $500, or up to six months in the Jessamine County Detention Center
- Delivery trucks named
- No, covered through loading and refuse wording
Summary
Nicholasville bars loading, unloading, opening, closing or handling boxes, crates, containers, building materials, sod and garbage cans between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. when it causes a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary. Refuse collection and refuse vehicles have a separate window of 10:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. under § 12-10(b)(4) and (b)(5).
(b) In addition, the following shall be prohibited: ... (4) Loading or unloading, opening, closing or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, building materials, sod, garbage cans or similar objects between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., prevailing local time, in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary. (5) Collecting refuse or operating refuse collection vehicles between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., prevailing local time, in such manner as to create a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary.
Official source re-checked November 3, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Local legislation current through Ord. No. 175-2024, dated 1-13-25 | State legislation current through 2024 Acts).
Full Breakdown
Delivery trucks are not named in the Nicholasville Code of Ordinances, and § 12-10 does not mention backup alarms or idling. The provisions that govern the work a delivery or service truck does are § 12-10(b)(4) and (b)(5).
Subsection (b)(4) prohibits loading or unloading, opening, closing or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, building materials, sod, garbage cans or similar objects between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., prevailing local time, in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary. Both parts of the test apply: the handling must happen inside the 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. window and the noise has to cross a dwelling unit boundary.
Subsection (b)(5) addresses trash trucks. It prohibits collecting refuse or operating refuse collection vehicles between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., prevailing local time, in such manner as to create a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary. The refuse window ends at 5:30 a.m. rather than 7:00 a.m., so the two subsections do not share the same morning cutoff.
Outside those windows, the general rule in § 12-10(a) still applies to noise emitted beyond a person's property or from any vehicle that unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or any lawful business or activity. Section 12-10 prints no decibel limit and no exemption for commercial deliveries, so a business loading dock is treated under the same dwelling-unit-boundary wording as a residential garage.
Violations & Fines
Under § 12-10(c), any person violating these provisions is subject to a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500 or up to six months in the Jessamine County Detention Center. That specific penalty applies in place of the $10 to $250 general penalty in § 1-10(a). The section does not name the officer who enforces it.
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