Littleton, CO Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Littleton's bark-nuisance rule sits in Section 6-2-6 of City Code Chapter 6-2, Dogs and Cats, adopted originally by Ordinance 3 of 1983. It reaches any cat or dog whose owner or harborer lets it create noise, specifically loud, frequent or habitual barking, yelping, yowling or howling, that causes a serious annoyance, and the section labels every violation a public nuisance in its own text rather than leaving nuisance status to be inferred. The section sets no decibel meter or fixed time window, so the standard turns on whether the noise is loud, frequent or habitual enough to seriously annoy, a fact question for the officer investigating a complaint and, ultimately, the municipal court.

Because it falls inside Chapter 6-2 rather than a general nuisance or noise chapter, the barking-dog rule is enforced by the same city police and animal control officers who handle rabies, at-large and dangerous-animal cases under the rest of the chapter, and a violation is treated procedurally like any other Chapter 6-2 offense rather than through a separate noise-ordinance process. A person who keeps or harbors the noisy animal, not just the animal itself, is who the law holds responsible for compliance.