Tulsa, OK Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)
Construction hours in Tulsa, OK, sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances, set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
Key Facts
- Covered equipment
- Compressed-air tools, jackhammers, pneumatic devices
- Requirement
- Must be effectively muffled and reduced
- Curfew
- None: applies at any hour
- Penalty
- Up to $200 fine per day
- Citation
- Tulsa Revised Ordinances, Title 27, § 1400.F
Summary
Tulsa's noise ordinance bans mechanical devices operated by compressed air, jackhammers, pneumatic tools, air compressors, unless effectively muffled, as part of the city's general unreasonable-noise offense under Title 27.
It shall be an offense for any person to willfully or maliciously disturb the public peace or quietude or the life, health or safety of a reasonable person of normal sensitivities in any manner, by creating any noise of such character or duration so as to be unreasonably loud or disturbing, including but not limited to the following: ...F.The use of any mechanical device operated by compressed air, unless same is effectively muffled and reduced;
Full Breakdown
Tulsa's disturbing-the-peace ordinance (Title 27, Chapter 14) lists specific noise sources that count as unreasonably loud, and mechanical devices operated by compressed air is one of them: the category that covers jackhammers, pneumatic nail guns, pavement breakers and portable air compressors common on construction sites. Operators must keep the equipment effectively muffled and reduced; unmuffled compressed-air tools can be cited as an offense at any time of day, since Section 1400 sets no separate curfew for construction noise. Tulsa Police enforce the section citation-by-citation rather than through a dedicated construction-hours permit system.
Violations & Fines
A violation is a fine up to $200 per offense under Section 1408's chapter-wide penalty, and each day the noise continues counts as a separate violation; officers cite in the field, no permit or hearing is required.
Frequently Asked Questions
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