Sandy, UT Noise from Specific Sources: Low-Frequency Bass Limits (2026)

Sandy City Code § 14-10-12 makes it unlawful to operate a radio, tape player, CD player, television, musical instrument, or similar device in, on, or from a motor vehicle on public property or public rights-of-way so that it is plainly audible 100 feet from the vehicle. , any portion of which is readily discernible by normal sensibilities, which reaches thumping low-frequency bass even when the lyrics or melody are not distinguishable, closing the loophole that a driver could otherwise argue only words or music, not bass alone, are regulated.

The rule applies wherever a vehicle sits on a public street, alley, parking lot, or other City right-of-way; it does not reach private driveways or private lots that are not open to the public. It traces to the Traffic Code's original § 285 and sits in Chapter 14-10 alongside Sandy's other stops-required and nuisance driving rules. Because Title 14's general penalty clause in § 14-3-1 governs any section that does not set its own penalty, a violation of the 100-foot audibility standard is punishable as an infraction, Sandy's traffic code's lowest offense tier, unless the conduct also amounts to a greater state or City offense. The provision sits directly after Sandy's animals-in-open-vehicles rule and just before the median-sitting prohibition, both part of the same Chapter 14-10 stops-required scheme.