Eden Prairie, MN Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 9.07, Subd. 6.B makes it unlawful for anyone owning, operating, having charge of, or occupying a building or premises in the City of Eden Prairie to keep or allow an animal that, by noise, unreasonably disturbs the peace and quiet of any person nearby. The City Code does not leave 'unreasonably disturb' to guesswork: it defines the phrase to include any animal noise that a person, including a law enforcement officer or Animal Control Officer, can hear from outside the building or premises where the animal is kept, occurring repeatedly over at least a ten-minute period, with more than thirty individual noises during that window.

That numeric threshold means a single bark or an occasional short bout does not violate the section; an animal that barks, howls or otherwise sounds off more than thirty times inside any ten-minute stretch, audibly from off the property, does. The subdivision sits alongside Subd. 6.A's separate at-large prohibition, so a dog can trigger both violations at once if it is loose and noisy. Complaints go to the Eden Prairie Police Department, whose Animal Control Officer investigates and can act on either subdivision; a chicken keeper's flock noise is cross-referenced to this same subdivision in the City's chicken-keeping section, 9.73.