Youngstown, OH Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Chapter 509 of the Youngstown Codified Ordinances, Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance, opens Section 509.10 with a blanket rule: the creation of any loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise in the City is prohibited. Rather than leaving that standard to guesswork, subsection (b) lists eleven specific acts the City Council has already declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises, and two of them carry fixed clock hours instead of a general nuisance test. Paragraph (10) targets garages: no garage in a residential district may emit loud or offensive noise between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if it disturbs or keeps awake people living nearby.

The ordinance defines "residential district" for this purpose as any garage located within one hundred feet of a building used as a private residence, rooming house, apartment house or hotel, so the curfew follows proximity to housing rather than a zoning map line. A companion curfew in paragraph (11), running 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., covers bars, night clubs, drive-in restaurants, bowling alleys and open-air theaters within five hundred feet of housing. Outside those fixed windows, any noise source in the City can still be cited under the general prohibition in subsection (a) if it is loud, disturbing and unnecessary, so the clock hours in (10) and (11) are floors, not the outer limit of enforcement.

Youngstown Police officers respond to resident complaints and can cite a property owner or operator directly under Section 509.10 without a separate noise-meter reading, since the section defines the violation by the listed conduct rather than a decibel threshold.