Roseville, MN Noise Ordinances: Leaf Blower Rules (2026)

Section 404.03(b) of the Roseville City Code lists the equipment it governs: a power lawn mower, power hedge clipper, chain saw, mulcher, garden tiller, edger, drill or other similar domestic power maintenance equipment. Leaf blowers are not named. Chapter 404 prints no separate leaf-blower provision, no ban on gas-powered blowers and no decibel limit, so the printed rule for yard-maintenance power tools is the hours window, and the closing phrase "other similar domestic power maintenance equipment" is the language that reaches equipment outside the list.

The hours are 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on any weekday and 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on any weekend or legal holiday. Snow removal equipment is exempt from the provision, so running it is not limited by these windows.

Section 404.03(d) puts construction using power equipment on the same two windows, and Section 404.03(c) does the same for garbage and refuse collection in any residential district. Separately, Section 404.01 prohibits any distinctly and loudly audible noise that unreasonably annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety or welfare of any person, whatever the time of day.

Someone who needs different hours applies to the city council for a variance under Section 404.05. The applicant provides a certified list of property owners within 500 feet, the council holds a hearing under chapter 107, and for good cause shown it grants or denies the variance in its sole discretion and can impose reasonable conditions. Section 404.06(a) confirms that, in addition to criminal penalties, Chapter 404 can be enforced by injunction, action for abatement or other appropriate civil remedies.