Eden Prairie, MN Noise Ordinances: Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound (2026)

Eden Prairie's noise chapter opens with a catchall in Section 9.41, Subdivision 2: no person may make or cause any distinctly and loudly audible noise that unreasonably disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, peace or safety of others, and that general ban is not limited by the more specific rules that follow it. Subdivision 2.C is one of those specific rules, and it targets amplified sound used to sell something rather than amplified sound generally. In the Commercial, Industrial or Office zoning districts, no person may operate, or let anyone else operate, a loudspeaker, sound amplifier or other sound-reproducing device on a street or other public place for the purpose of commercial advertising or attracting public attention to a commercial establishment or vehicle.

The ban applies regardless of volume or time of day, since the text does not carve out a decibel threshold or an hour: the advertising purpose itself is what triggers the violation. It sits alongside Subdivision 2.B, which separately bars paging and intercom systems in the same three zoning districts from being operated loudly enough to disturb people nearby, treating audibility at the property line, or fifty feet beyond it for equipment outside a building, as automatic proof of a violation. Section 9.41 does not set its own fine for either provision, so the citywide default in Section 1.03 applies: a petty misdemeanor.

Because Subdivision 2.C is confined to the Commercial, Industrial and Office districts, amplified music at a residential gathering is instead governed by the general disturbance ban in Subdivision 2, not by this advertising-specific rule.