Stonecrest, GA Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Section 18-60 states Stonecrest's noise policy: excessive sound is a hazard to public health, welfare and quality of life, and the mayor and council intend to prevent it. Section 18-63 carries that policy into a specific nighttime rule. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful, between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., for any person to make, cause or allow sound from a source they own or control that is plainly audible inside the sealed interior of another single-family detached dwelling in a residential area; a party house permitted under the zoning code gets an extension only until its stated conclusion, no later than midnight.

Subsection (b) applies the same 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. window to multifamily buildings, barring plainly audible sound in a shared common area such as a hallway, lobby, parking lot or courtyard. Subsection (c) lists sixteen exclusions from both rules: public safety vehicles and alarms; exterior burglar or fire alarms that shut off within five minutes continuous or ten minutes intermittent; automobile alarms with the same five/ten-minute cutoff; sounds under OSHA jurisdiction; National Warning System signals; permitted parades and protests; railroad operations; federally preempted aircraft noise; motor vehicle sound already regulated by O.C.G.A. § 40-6-14(a); genuine emergencies; agricultural sound; properly muffled vehicles on a public right-of-way; residential air conditioners; swimming pool filters; and any activity covered by a special administrative variance issued under the article.

Plainly audible under section 18-62 means detectable by an ordinary unaided ear, with no requirement that words or music be intelligible, so the standard is what a neighbor can hear, not a decibel reading.