Battle Creek, MI Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Battle Creek, in Calhoun County, Michigan, does not print a single quiet-hours schedule. Instead the City Commission built the overnight window into several paragraphs of the noise control section, § 652.07, and the window is the same each time: 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. of the following day.

The core rule is § 652.07(b)(3). Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing, or the making of any loud noise on the public streets between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is declared unreasonable and prohibited. The same paragraph reaches noise at any time of day when it is made so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any office or in any dwelling, hotel or other type of residence, or of any person in the vicinity. So the street rule is a clock rule, while the neighbor rule has no clock at all.

The overnight window also drives other limits. Under (b)(2), electronic sound equipment and instruments plainly audible at twenty-five feet between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. are prima-facie evidence of a violation, against fifty feet during the day. Under (b)(11), a vehicle sound system plainly audible at twenty-five feet in the same hours is prohibited. Under (b)(8), building work and street excavation are allowed only between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. unless the Department of Public Works issues a permit.

All of it rests on the general prohibition in § 652.07(a): no person shall make, continue or cause to be made or continued any unreasonable noise or any noise which unreasonably annoys or disturbs, does injury to, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others within the City. The enumerated list in subsection (b) is not exclusive, so a noise outside the listed items can still violate subsection (a).