Stonecrest, GA Noise Ordinances: Leaf Blower Rules (2026)

Leaf blowers are named specifically in the noise article's definitions: Sec. 18-62 lists "motorized landscape maintenance devices such as lawn mowers, weed-whackers, leaf blowers, and chain saws" as sound sources the article covers. The operating hours for that whole category sit in Sec. 18-64(c): weekday work is allowed from 7:01 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and weekend work is compressed to a later 9:01 a.m. start, both ending at 9:00 p.m. Reading the subsection's two sentences together, use is barred from 9:01 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on weekdays and from 9:01 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. on weekends, leaving the earliest possible weekend start a full two hours later than a weekday.

The subsection closes with an equipment requirement rather than a time one: "All motorized equipment used in these activities shall be operated with a muffler," so an unmuffled blower or trimmer is out of compliance even inside the permitted hours. Because Sec. 18-64(a) routes overnight enforcement to the Sec. 18-65 sound-level test instead of this subsection, a landscaping crew running equipment past 9:00 p.m. is exposed to both the scheduling violation here and the decibel standard that follows at 11:00 p.m. Commercial landscaping crews working in a mixed-use development face the identical weekday and weekend windows under the parallel Sec. 18-66(c).