Oregon, OH Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

, if the work is within a residential area or within 500 feet of a school or hospital. The Mayor, the Chief of Police or the city's authorized representative can approve a temporary exception to that curfew for specific conditions. Subsection (b) adds a separate standard untethered to the clock: no one may perform construction or repair work on a structure or building, or excavation or roadwork using power-operated construction-type equipment, in a manner where the noise substantially exceeds what is customarily and necessarily attendant to reasonably and efficiently performing that work.

Subsection (c) supplies a numeric backstop for equipment manufactured after the chapter's effective date: the sound level from a piece of construction equipment, apart from impulsive sound and critical construction equipment, cannot exceed 90 dBA measured at the property line or at least fifty feet from the equipment when it is operating at the boundary of the construction project, again within a residential area or within 500 feet of a school or hospital. 17's vibration standard. 12 exempts emergency work and authorized public activities like parades and fireworks from the noise rules generally, but that exemption does not reach ordinary private construction. 99, with each day of continuing violation a separate offense, enforced by the Oregon Division of Police and Building and Zoning inspectors.