Whitfield County, GA Noise Ordinances: Decibel Limits (2026)

5-41(a) uses plain audibility over distance as its objective test. Any sound that annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others becomes unlawful the moment it is plainly audible to a person of normal hearing ability at a distance of 100 feet from the point of origin of the sound or noise, and for noise coming from real property, the measuring point shifts to the property line itself if that boundary sits farther away than 100 feet, whichever distance is greater.

That single audibility-at-100-feet test underlies every specific example the county lists afterward, from stereos and horns to jake brakes and construction equipment, and subsection (b)(2) even says explicitly that a radio or similar device heard from 100 feet is prima facie evidence of a violation, tying the specific examples back to the same distance-based standard rather than an instrument reading. 5-41(c): county vehicles on public business, nighttime road work by the county or state when daytime work is impractical, noncommercial public-address amplifiers, and agricultural activity on agriculturally zoned land are not measured against the 100-foot standard at all.