Kansas City, MO Noise from Specific Sources: Low-Frequency Bass Limits (2026)

Plainly audible means any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her unaided hearing faculties of normal acuity. As an example, if the sound source under investigation is a portable or vehicular sound amplification or reproduction device, the detection of the rhythmic bass component of the music is sufficient to verify plainly audible sound. The noise control officer or police officer need not determine the title, specific words, or the artist performing the song.

Real property boundary means an imaginary line along the ground surface, and its vertical extension, which separates the real property owned by one person from that owned by another person, but not including infra-building real property divisions.

Receiving property means a property from which a noise from another property is heard. A receiving property is often a complainant's property.

Residential property means property that does not come within the definition of "commercial property" in this section. When a property is located in an overlay district, the underlying zoning district will apply.

Soft test site means any test site having the ground surface covered with grass, other ground cover, or similar absorptive material for half or more of the distance between the microphone target point and the microphone location point.