Quiet hours in St. Joseph County, IN — also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time — define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
In unincorporated St. Joseph County noise runs on Indiana's disorderly-conduct law (IC 35-45-1-3); South Bend caps residential sound at 55 dBA from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and 62 dBA daytime under Code Sec. 13-82.
St. Joseph County zones its unincorporated areas through the Area Plan Commission but sets no decibel noise ordinance of its own, so nighttime disturbances there are policed as disorderly conduct under IC 35-45-1-3, a Class B misdemeanor. Inside South Bend, Code Sec. 13-82 makes it unlawful for sound at a residential property boundary to exceed 55 dBA between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or 62 dBA between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Sec. 13-57 adds a plainly-audible-at-50-feet test. Mishawaka enforces its own comparable noise code.
South Bend fines escalate $50 first offense, $100 second, $250 third, with up to $2,500 on conviction under Sec. 13-84. Countywide, disorderly conduct is a Class B misdemeanor, up to $1,000.
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