Huntington, NY Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 141-4(D) of the Noise Disturbances chapter targets animals and birds specifically: keeping one or more animals or birds whose noise, by loudness, duration, frequency or intensity, causes public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or otherwise creates a 'noise disturbance' as defined in § 141-2, is unlawful. The section builds in two evidentiary shortcuts for enforcement. that is plainly audible 50 feet from where it originates is prima facie evidence of a violation, meaning the Town doesn't need a decibel reading, just a distance-and-time observation. Second, daytime or nighttime noise that runs continuously for five minutes or more, or adds up to 15 minutes across any eight-hour stretch, and is plainly audible inside a neighboring dwelling, residence, office or apartment, is likewise prima facie evidence, regardless of the clock.

Complaints typically go through the Town's Public Safety or code enforcement channels, and because § 141-4 is enforced under the chapter's general penalty section rather than a separate animal-noise fine schedule, a dog owner cited under this provision faces the same escalating fines as any other noise-chapter violation. The rule sits inside Article II, Noise Disturbance, which the Town Board rewrote in 2013 and has amended repeatedly since, most recently in 2021 and 2024, to sharpen the enumerated categories of prohibited noise.