Auburn, AL Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 4-19, titled 'Additional care of dogs,' folds three neighbor-facing duties into one section. Subsection (a) targets habitual barking or yelping that is loud and frequent enough to annoy and disturb people nearby, rather than any single bark. Subsection (b) separately makes it unlawful and a nuisance to keep a dog or group of dogs under conditions where the odor interferes with the reasonable use and enjoyment of adjacent or neighboring premises, whether the dogs are kept in a fence, pen, kennel or building. Subsection (c) requires the owner or person in charge to immediately remove and properly dispose of any feces the dog deposits on another's property within the city, though the duty does not apply to the owner's own private property.

All three duties sit inside Chapter 4's animal control scheme, enforced by the animal control officer or any law enforcement officer, and a habitual violator can be escalated under Sec. 4-15's repeat-offender process, which allows removal and impoundment of the animal after five or more prior guilty findings under the chapter, followed by a municipal court hearing within 20 days of seizure.