Iredell County, NC Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)
Quiet hours in Iredell County, NC, also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time, define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Key Facts
- Curfew hours
- 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
- Applies to
- Garages, stores, factories, similar businesses
- Protected locations
- Nearby dwellings, hotels, churches
- Civil ticket range
- $50 to $200 by offense
- Criminal penalty
- Up to $500 fine or 30 days
Summary
Iredell County bars garages, filling stations, factories, stores and similar businesses from operating between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in a way that creates loud, disturbing noise reaching nearby homes, hotels or churches. This is the county's nighttime curfew for commercial noise, not a blanket quiet-hours rule for individuals.
Business noises near residences. The operation of any garage, filling station, automobile sales or repair business, taxi business, plant, store, factory, or other business of any type between the hours of nine o'clock p.m. and seven o'clock a.m. in such manner as to create loud and disturbing noises of such frequency or volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, peace, or repose of any person in any dwelling, hotel, boarding house, or other type of residence or church, or place of religious worship.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 32).
Full Breakdown
when it creates noise of a frequency or volume that annoys or disturbs the quiet, comfort, peace or repose of anyone in a nearby dwelling, hotel, boarding house, other residence, church or place of religious worship. 5-23(7), separately bars excessive noise on any street next to a school, library, sanitarium, hospital or court while in session, or next to a church during services. S. 5-25: a violation is a misdemeanor carrying up to a $500 fine or 30 days in jail, or officers can instead issue a civil ticket of $50 for a first offense, $100 for a second and $200 for a third or later offense, payable within 20 days to the county finance officer, with a criminal summons following nonpayment or a failure to appear. Courts may also grant equitable relief such as restraining orders or injunctions against a business that repeatedly violates the nighttime noise curfew.
Violations & Fines
A business operating loudly during the 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. window faces the Article II penalty structure: a civil ticket starting at $50 and rising to $200 for repeat offenses within 20 days, or a misdemeanor charge of up to $500 and 30 days under Section 7.5-25.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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