Lewisville, TX Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Section 3-2 of the animal control chapter makes it a violation to knowingly or intentionally keep or allow an animal to create a nuisance, and subsection (1) singles out animal noise: an owner who lets a dog, or any animal, disturb nearby residents with frequent or prolonged barking, howling, crowing, bawling or squealing is only in violation once notified of a complaint by an animal control officer or a police officer and then fails to make the disturbance stop and stay stopped. The same section separately covers foul odors, unsanitary conditions and vermin caused by an animal (subsection (2)) and a dog's owner failing to pick up after it on public or private property (subsection (3)), so a noise complaint can travel alongside a sanitation complaint about the same yard.

Enforcement runs through Section 3-45: the animal control officer, a health and code enforcement officer, or any city police officer may issue a citation for any Chapter 3 violation they observe, and if the alleged violator can't be reached in person, the citation can be served by certified or registered mail. Knowingly failing to appear in municipal court after being cited is itself a separate violation under Section 3-45(c). Because Chapter 3 doesn't set its own dollar penalty for the noise-nuisance provision, punishment falls to the citywide general penalty in Section 1-15, which caps fines at $500 per offense for violations outside the fire-safety, zoning and public-health brackets, with each day the disturbance continues counted as a new offense.