Phoenix, AZ Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)
Key Facts
- Governs
- Loading/unloading vehicle noise
- Applies
- Citywide, any hour
- Classification
- Misdemeanor nuisance noise
- Includes
- Banging boxes, crates, containers
Summary
Phoenix bans loud, excessive noise from loading or unloading vehicles, including the banging of boxes and crates, anywhere in the city.
Loading and unloading operations. The creation of loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle or the opening and destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers.
l. Noises to attract attention. The use of any drum, loudspeaker or other instrument or device for the purpose of attracting attention by creation of noise to any performance, show or sale of display of merchandise.
m. Loudspeakers or amplifiers on vehicles. The use of mechanical loudspeakers or amplifiers on automobiles, trucks, buses or other moving or standing vehicles for advertising or other purposes. (Code 1962, § 26-3; Ord. No. G-3119, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. G-5487, § 4, 2010; Ord. No. G-5590, § 1, 2011; Ord. No. G-5634, 2011)
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance G-7524, passed June 17, 2026).
Full Breakdown
City Code § 23-14(k) lists loud loading and unloading noise as a prohibited "unnecessary noise" citywide, with no time-of-day carve-out: it applies any hour a delivery truck is being loaded or unloaded. It sits alongside the code's separate ban on unreasonably loud vehicle exhaust and horn noise, and enforcement runs through the same general nuisance-noise misdemeanor in § 23-12.
Violations & Fines
Violating the noise article is a misdemeanor punishable under the City Code's general penalty provisions; Phoenix Police and code enforcement respond to loading-noise complaints.
Frequently Asked Questions
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