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

Section 8.16.412 in Chapter 8.16, Sound and Vibration, covers radios, television sets, phonographs, drums, musical instruments, sound amplifiers and similar devices that produce, reproduce or amplify sound. It declares two acts violations. The first is operating, playing or permitting the playing of such a device between ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. the following day in a manner that creates a noise disturbance across a real property boundary or within a noise sensitive zone. The second is creating a noise disturbance at fifty feet (50') from the device when it is operated in or on a motor vehicle on a public right of way or public space. The vehicle rule has no hour limit. Noncommercial spoken language is carved out and handled by section 8.16.414.

Section 8.16.300 defines a noise disturbance as any sound that endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals, annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or endangers or injures personal or real property. The standard for ordinary music is that disturbance test, not a meter reading.

Loudspeakers and public address systems have their own times in section 8.16.414. For noncommercial use, the ban runs from 10:00 P.M. to eight o'clock (8:00) A.M. the following day when the sound creates a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary or within a noise sensitive zone. For commercial use, a noise disturbance across any real property boundary or within a noise sensitive zone is a violation, as is any use between 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. on a public right of way or public space.

Places of public entertainment face a numeric cap in section 8.16.426: sound above ninety five (95) dBA, read by the slow response on a sound level meter at any point normally occupied by a customer, is a violation unless a conspicuous and legible sign near each public entrance warns of permanent hearing impairment.