Blaine, MN Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

City Code Sec. 50-236(6), the noisy-parties-and-gatherings provision within Chapter 50's noise division, bars permitting or participating in any party or gathering on public or private property that unreasonably disturbs the peace, quiet or repose of another person. As with the amplified-sound rule, the ordinance builds in an evidentiary presumption: noise from a gathering plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet or more between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is presumed a violation, sparing Blaine Police from having to measure decibels at the property line.

Once an officer has probable cause that a violation has occurred, the officer may order everyone present, other than the owner or tenant of the premises, to disperse and leave immediately, and refusing to leave after that order is itself a separate violation of the section. Two narrow exceptions apply: activities duly authorized, sponsored or licensed by the city and conducted within the terms of that authorization, and people who came to the gathering solely to help stop the violation. This nighttime curfew on gathering noise sits beside the general noise prohibition in Sec.

50-235 and the section's other listed prohibited noises. Absent a specific penalty for this subsection, violations fall under the Chapter 1 general penalty, Sec. 1-7.