Logan, UT Noise Ordinances: Leaf Blower Rules (2026)

Logan's Noise Control Ordinance does not mention leaf blowers by name and prints no separate rule for gas-powered units. The operative provision is § 8.16.440, Domestic Power Tools. It prohibits operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, sander, drill, grinder, lawn or garden tool, snowblower or similar device used outdoors in residential areas between 9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. the following day, so as to cause a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary. A leaf blower is a mechanically powered lawn or garden tool, so it sits inside those words.

Three conditions line up for a violation. The tool is used outdoors, the location is a residential area (land zoned R1, R1A, R2, R2A, MH, R3 or R4 under the chapter's definition), and the sound creates a noise disturbance across a residential property line. Chapter 8.16 defines a noise disturbance as any sound that endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals, annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or endangers or injures personal or real property. Section 8.16.400 separately forbids unreasonably making or continuing a noise disturbance, so daytime blower use that is unreasonable can still draw a complaint.

The section applies to any person, and the chapter has no separate rule for professional landscaping crews. Section 8.16.422(B) routes tool use covered by § 8.16.440 away from the construction rule, and § 8.16.620 exempts domestic power tools from the decibel table in § 8.16.600. The 9:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. time window, not a dBA reading, is the yardstick. Snowblowers share the same window as leaf blowers, mowers and trimmers under this one section.