Jackson, TN Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Jackson Municipal Code § 10-103 makes it unlawful to willfully or knowingly keep or harbor, on one's premises, any dog or other animal that makes or creates loud and obnoxious noises, by whatever method created, thereby disturbing the peace of the neighborhood or disturbing the occupants of adjacent premises or nearby residents. The section builds in a specific notice-and-cure mechanism: a person is only deemed to have willfully and knowingly violated the section once a police officer or animal control officer has notified them of the disturbance and the owner then refuses, for a period of twenty-four hours, to correct the disturbance and prevent it from happening again.

That structure means a single complaint about a noisy dog does not itself create a violation; the owner must first receive official notice and then fail to abate the noise within the twenty-four-hour window. The provision sits in Title 10, Chapter 1, alongside the running-at-large ban in § 10-102 and the cruelty-to-animals provision in § 10-104, and is enforced the same way, through animal control officers, the Jackson Police Department, and the Jackson Animal Care Center, whose director serves as the code's health officer. Because the ordinance covers 'any dog or other animal,' a chronically barking dog, a crowing rooster kept under the Title 10, Chapter 2 poultry rules, or another noisy pet can all trigger the same notice-and-cure process rather than an immediate citation.