Deltona, FL Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Deltona Code of Ordinances § 38-73(c)(7) is written around the act of keeping the animal. The violation is "the keeping of any animal" that causes the noise, so the section reaches whoever keeps a barking dog or any other noisy animal in Deltona. The wording is not limited to dogs.

The section describes the prohibited noise in alternative ways. One is noise that is frequent or long and continuous, made in such a manner as to disturb the public peace, quiet and comfort of the neighboring inhabitants. Both parts matter: the sound has to recur or drag on, and it has to disturb the people living nearby. The other is noise made at any time with greater intensity than is necessary for convenient hearing for the persons who are in the room, vehicle or chamber in which the sound emitter is operated and who are voluntary listeners to it. That language measures the sound against the people who chose to hear it. Neighbors in Deltona are not voluntary listeners to someone else's animal, so sound that carries beyond the keeper's own space at more than that intensity falls within the section.

Deltona does not attach a decibel number to animal noise in this paragraph. The test is disturbance and intensity, so a complaint does not depend on a meter reading. It applies whenever the barking or other animal sound is excessive and disruptive.

The section closes with its own sentence on timing: "Quieter standards are expected during nighttime hours." The quoted paragraph does not list clock times, but it signals that the same animal noise is judged more strictly at night than during the day.

Responsibility is shared. Under § 38-68(c), the owner, tenant, or other person lawfully in possession of the property is each responsible for compliance, regardless of who caused the noise. A Deltona property owner and a tenant can both be answerable for noise from a tenant's dog.