Barking dog rules in Woodbury, MN — also called nuisance dog, dog noise, or excessive barking ordinances — define when a barking dog becomes a code violation and how complaints are handled.
Woodbury City Code prohibits owning, keeping, or harboring any animal that by noise unreasonably or excessively disturbs the peace and quiet of nearby people. The animal chapter defines what counts as a violation by time and duration, with a stricter standard at night (10:00 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) than in the daytime.
Woodbury addresses chronic animal noise through its animal-control provisions (Chapter 5) and its nuisance chapter. The core prohibition, summarized on the city's own ordinance page, bars the owning, keeping, or harboring of any animal which shall by any noise unreasonably or excessively disturb the peace and quiet of any person in the vicinity. Rather than leaving 'excessive' undefined, the code ties it to duration and time of day. During the daytime, a violation is established when the animal noise occurs repeatedly over at least a ten-minute period with one minute or less between each noise, or over at least a five-minute period (one minute or less between noises) when two or more complaints from different neighbors are received. During the nighttime period of 10:00 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., the threshold is lower: noise that occurs five or more times over a period of one minute. The ordinance excludes animals reacting to a trespasser or that have been teased or provoked. Barking-dog complaints are handled by Woodbury Public Safety; residents document the dates, times, and duration to support enforcement.
Permitting an animal to bark or make noise that meets the code's time-and-duration thresholds is a violation enforced by Woodbury Public Safety, and animal nuisances are also actionable under the nuisance chapter (Ch. 15). Owners are typically contacted to correct the problem; continued violations can lead to a citation.
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