Bossier City, LA Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Section 46-31 is Bossier City's general nuisance-noise ordinance, adopted by Ordinance No. 65-2007 on July 24, 2007, and it works on two levels. Subsection (a) prohibits any loud, unreasonable or unusual noise, or any noise that disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others, citywide, without a decibel threshold; the violation depends on the noise's effect, not a meter reading. Subsection (b) then lists 14 nonexclusive examples that are automatically treated as violations, several of which key on the overnight hours: playing a radio, television, phonograph or musical instrument loudly enough, particularly between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., to disturb people in offices, hospitals, dwellings, hotels or other residences; and yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on public streets during the same window or at any time it disturbs a hospital, dwelling, hotel or residence.

Construction, demolition and street excavation in residential areas are separately confined to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, with emergency work needing a building-inspector permit good for up to 30 days. Subsection (c) exempts publicly owned vehicles on necessary business, government excavation work performed at night out of public necessity, and noncommercial public-address use under a police-chief permit. The ordinance does not set its own fine, so it is enforced under the Code's general penalty at § 1-9.