Eagle Mountain, UT Noise Ordinances: Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound (2026)

EMMC 8.15.080(B), Radios, Television Sets, Tape Players, Musical Instruments and Similar Devices, makes it unlawful to use, operate, or permit the operation of any radio, musical instrument, television, phonograph, drum, or other sound-producing or sound-reproducing device in violation of the chapter's general noise-disturbance standard in EMMC 8.15.070, or in a way that is plainly audible beyond the source's property boundary. It adds a separate, time-independent trigger for public spaces: on public property, in a public right-of-way, or on private property, that same kind of device cannot be operated at any time, day or night, so as to be plainly audible 15 feet from the device itself, regardless of the citywide 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. restricted hours that otherwise govern decibel limits.

A related provision, EMMC 8.15.080(C), separately bars a loudspeaker or sound-amplifying equipment, fixed or mounted on a vehicle, from being used on a street, alley, sidewalk, park, or public or private property for commercial advertising, giving directions or instructions, lectures, or transmitting music to an assembly of people, again measured against the EMMC 8.15.070 disturbance standard. Both prohibitions sit inside the same chapter that defines a per se disturbance as any sound exceeding the zone's maximum permissible decibel level during restricted hours, or 85 decibels at any time, and enforcement runs through the mayor or the mayor's designated agent under EMMC 8.15.030.