DeKalb County, GA Noise from Specific Sources: Low-Frequency Bass Limits (2026)

Sound means any oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that causes compression and rarefaction of that medium. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity and frequency. Bass reverberations constitute sound. Sound includes, but is not limited to:

(1)Mechanical sound-making devices such as radios, stereos, boom boxes, televisions, musical instruments, horns, whistles, bells, chimes or carillons, phonographs, sound amplifiers or other machines or devices for the producing, reproducing or amplifying of sound;(2)Human-produced sounds such as yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, singing, speaking or arguing;(3)Commercial advertising sounds;(4)Party noise;(5)Sound coming from motorized landscape maintenance devices such as lawn mowers, weed-whackers, leaf blowers, and chain saws;(6)Animal vocalizations from pets or nondomesticated animals;(7)Testing of burglar, fire or car alarms; and(8)Sound coming from construction and demolition activities such as hammering, nailing, drilling, sawing, and paving. Sound level meter means an instrument that conforms to ANSI S1.4-1983 or its successors.

(Ord. No. 10-20, Pt. I, 11-16-10; Ord. of 7-23-19(1), Pt. I)