Lawton, OK Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 16-4-2-424(A)(4) is Lawton's animal-noise clause, embedded in the same list of 'prohibited noises enumerated' that covers car horns, loud machinery, construction hours and amplified sound. ' Unlike the amplified-sound clause two lines above it, which sets a twenty-five-foot audibility test, the animal-noise clause carries no distance or decibel standard at all; liability turns on whether the noise is 'frequent or long-continued' and whether it disturbs the comfort or repose of nearby people, a fact question for the responding officer or municipal judge. The list opens by declaring that the enumerated acts, including this one, 'are declared to be unreasonably or substantially loud or disturbing noises in violation of Section 16-423' (the general noise-nuisance ban at 16-4-2-423), 'but shall not be deemed to be exclusive,' meaning other unlisted animal-noise scenarios could still be charged under the general nuisance clause even if they don't fit this specific wording.

The clause covers birds as well as dogs and other animals, and applies regardless of whether the animal is kept indoors or outdoors. 00, up to sixty days in city jail, or both, plus court costs and fees.