Calvert County, MD Noise from Specific Sources: Generator Noise (2026)

' The ban applies specifically to Calvert County park property, not to residential or commercial property generally; the exported Code of Calvert County has no county-wide noise-control provision addressing generators outside the parks chapter. Calvert's separate Noise Control ordinance, Chapter 80, instead adopts the Maryland Department of the Environment's COMAR Title 26, Subtitle 02, Chapter 03 as the county's noise standard, enforced by the Sheriff's Office and the Department of Planning and Zoning, with civil fines up to $1,000 for a first violation and up to $10,000 for each subsequent violation, but that chapter's text as exported does not single out generators by name.

Inside parks, the generator-authorization rule sits among a list of other activities that also need a Department official's or the Director's written sign-off, including operating a motorized unmanned aircraft (§ 82-2-101A(26)), using a metal detector outside designated areas (§ 82-2-101A(27)), and camping overnight (§ 82-2-101A(22)), reflecting the same park-wide policy that noise- and disruption-generating equipment be pre-cleared with staff rather than left to a patron's judgment at the site.