Hamburg Village, NY Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 109-6B of the Code of the Village of Hamburg, titled Noisy dogs, applies to every owner of a dog or of a duly approved kennel in the village. The owner cannot suffer or permit any dog to create any unreasonably loud or disturbing noise of such an intensity and duration as to be detrimental to the life, health or welfare of any individual. The Code declares the violation a public nuisance and requires the dog to be housed and confined in a place so constructed as to prevent the disturbing and unnecessary noise that results from habitual or continual barking.

The standard is judgment-based rather than a decibel reading. The section sets no clock hours and no measured sound level. Instead it must be liberally construed to prevent excessive, unreasonable, disturbing and unnecessary noise, with due consideration given to the circumstances, the time of day, the particular location of each violation and the demands of the public health, safety and welfare. The same dog at the same volume can be treated differently at midday and in the middle of the night.

Section 109-9 lists a noisy dog, as defined in § 109-6B, among the dogs subject to seizure and impounding by the Animal Control Officer, any police officer or another authorized person. Under § 109-10 the owner gets notice, the dog is held for five days, and recovery costs $15 with a license, $20 for a second recovery within 30 days of the first impounding, or $25 for a third within 60 days, plus the actual daily cost of harboring. Chapter 164, the village noise chapter, carries a cross-reference sending animals to Chapter 109. Owners of livestock and poultry face a separate noise trigger: the permit in § 109-2B and the three-dog permit in § 109-7B can both end on complaints about noise. The Police Department enforces the dog article under § 109-15.