Quiet hours in Buckeye, AZ — also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time — define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Buckeye sets no city-wide decibel quiet hours, but City Code section 10-1-2 bans unreasonably loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise at any hour and, in residential subdivisions, bars continuous sound from radios, stereos, and similar devices from carrying past a property boundary between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Buckeye's noise rule is City Code section 10-1-2 (Disturbing and Unnecessary Noise Prohibited) in Chapter 10. It prohibits 'the creating of any unreasonable loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises within the corporate limits of the city,' and separately bans noises 'detrimental to the life or health of any individual or in disturbance of the public peace and welfare.' Subsection C(2) targets any radio, phonograph, stereo, television, CD player, musical instrument, or loudspeaker operated so as 'to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons on adjoining property.' The closest thing to fixed quiet hours appears in subsection C(2)(a): in residential subdivisions, 'any continuous sound production from devices such as those described in section 10-1-2(C)(2) shall not emanate beyond the property boundary between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in such volume as to be heard on any adjoining residential property.' For that nighttime provision the code states a police officer may elect to issue a citation only if at least two unrelated complainants from separate residences complain. The enumerated list is expressly 'not deemed to be exclusive.'
Where no specific penalty is stated, Chapter 10 violations are subject to the civil and criminal penalties in Article 1-7 of the city code. The nighttime residential-sound citation under 10-1-2(C)(2)(a) generally requires at least two unrelated complainants from separate residences.
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