Pulaski County, AR Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Section 13-2 of the Offenses chapter opens with a general ban: causing any unreasonably loud and disturbing noise of a volume or duration detrimental to life or health, or that disturbs the public peace and welfare, is prohibited outright, with no time window attached to that general clause. as the period when playing a radio, stereo, music reproduction system or musical instrument at a disturbing volume becomes a violation, alongside sustained automobile engine noise running in a private garage or driveway. The section is written to work alongside the county's separate dog-barking rules: subsection (c) states this noise section supplements Sections 3-16 through 3-25, which independently prohibit loud and frequent dog barking, so a noise complaint about dogs is handled under the animal chapter rather than this one.

Subsection (e) limits the entire section's reach to the unincorporated areas of Pulaski County; residents of Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Jacksonville or Maumelle fall under their own city's noise code instead. The ordinance was adopted as Ord. No. 93-OR-120 on December 22, 1993, and the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department is named as the enforcing agency for the whole article, meaning noise complaints in the county go to the sheriff's office rather than a separate code-enforcement department.