Twin Falls, ID Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

The barking rule is one item in the list of prohibited acts in Chapter 4 of Title 6 (Dogs and Cats) of the Twin Falls City Code, adopted by the Twin Falls City Council. Subsection (H) targets the person who owns, keeps or harbors the dog. Section 6-4-1 defines an owner as any person, firm, association or corporation owning, keeping or harboring a dog, so a tenant or caretaker who harbors a barking dog is covered along with the licensed owner. The animal control officer is the person charged with the primary responsibility for immediate enforcement of the chapter.

The test is the effect on other people. The text covers barking, howling or yelping that is loud, continued or frequent and that annoys or disturbs any neighborhood or person. As printed, the subsection sets no decibel level, no hour window and no minute count, and it carves out only the animal shelter and veterinary hospitals.

A second provision reaches the same conduct from the nuisance side. Section 7-1-3(D) of the Health and Sanitation title, headed Offensive Animals and Fowl, says no person owning, occupying or having charge of any building, stable or other premises shall keep or allow to be kept there any fowl, dog or other animal which by barking or other noise, or by offensive kennel or other place of keeping, disturbs the quiet or repose or the purity of the air in the living rooms of those thereon or in the vicinity, to the detriment of the life, health or comfort of any person. A footnote to that subsection points the reader back to § 6-4-14(H). Under § 7-1-1, every act or thing done, permitted, allowed or continued in violation of that chapter is deemed a nuisance.

Dog owners also carry the licensing duties in the same chapter: a dog six months of age or older must be licensed and registered under § 6-4-2 and must wear the license tag on a collar or harness under § 6-4-6.