Avondale, AZ Noise Ordinances: Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound (2026)

Section 15-11(c)(2) names radios, sound reproduction devices, and musical instruments specifically among the acts Avondale declares to be loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise. The violation is playing any of these 'in such a manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose' of people in a hospital, office, retail establishment, dwelling, hotel, or other residence, or of anyone else in the vicinity. This is a subjective, effects-based standard rather than a metered decibel threshold: officers and courts look at whether the volume actually disturbed people nearby, not whether a meter cleared a set number.

It sits under the same umbrella declaration in section 15-11(a) and (b), which makes any unreasonably loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise, or any noise detrimental to life or health or disruptive of the public peace, a misdemeanor citywide. Two statutory carve-outs limit enforcement overall: a city vehicle on necessary public business and the reasonable, noncommercial use of amplifiers or loudspeakers for public addresses are excluded from the whole section, including this music and radio provision. The pet-noise clause in the same section requires two independent written complaints before an action can be filed, but that heightened complaint bar applies only to subsection (c)(4); amplified music and radio complaints under (c)(2) can proceed on a single complaint or direct police observation of the disturbance.