Quiet hours in Hidalgo County, TX — also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time — define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Hidalgo County has no general noise ordinance and no fixed quiet hours for its unincorporated Rio Grande Valley areas. Under Texas law counties cannot set countywide dBA curfews, so late-night noise outside city limits is handled by the state disorderly-conduct statute, not a county curfew.
Texas counties possess only powers the Legislature grants, and the Legislature has never authorized a general county noise ordinance. Hidalgo County's published Rules & Regulations cover stormwater and subdivision platting, not noise. So unincorporated tracts around McAllen, Edinburg, Mission and Pharr have no local quiet-hours curfew. The controlling rule is Texas Penal Code Sec. 42.01(a)(5), which makes it disorderly conduct to make unreasonable noise near a private residence a person has no right to occupy; Sec. 42.01(c)(2) presumes noise unreasonable above 85 decibels only after a magistrate or peace officer gives notice it is a public nuisance. The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office enforces this. Inside any incorporated city, that city's own noise ordinance and quiet hours apply instead.
Disorderly conduct by unreasonable noise under Penal Code Sec. 42.01 is a Class C misdemeanor with a fine up to $500, enforced by the Sheriff's Office. No county civil noise penalty exists.
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