Edinburg, TX Noise Ordinances: Vehicle Noise (2026)
Key Facts
- Section
- § 95.20 (Chapter 95, Nuisances)
- Overnight limit
- 65 dB at 100+ feet
- Daytime limit
- 65 dB at 200+ feet
- Overnight window
- 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.
- Enforcement
- Edinburg Police; Municipal Court
Summary
Edinburg makes it unlawful to use any device that amplifies or reproduces sound on a public street when it registers 65 decibels or more: measured 100 feet away between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m., or 200 feet away at any other hour.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or operate ... any mechanical or electrical device, machine, apparatus or instrument to intensify or to amplify or to reproduce the human voice, or any other sound, on any public street within the corporate limits of the city under the following conditions: (A) At any time between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. ... when the decibel level reading at a point 100 or more feet from the source of the sound measures 65 decibels or more. (B) At any other time when the decibel level reading at a point 200 or more feet from the source ... measures 65 decibels or above.
Full Breakdown
Section 95.20 targets mechanical or electrical devices, car sound systems, loudspeakers, PA rigs, that intensify, amplify, or reproduce the human voice or any sound on a public street inside city limits. Two decibel triggers apply: 65 dB measured at 100 or more feet during the 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. overnight window, and 65 dB at 200 or more feet at any other hour. Edinburg Police enforce with a decibel reading, and cases go to Edinburg Municipal Court under the Chapter 95 general penalty in § 95.99. A separate provision, § 95.22, covers non-amplified disturbances of the peace.
Violations & Fines
A car stereo or loudspeaker hitting 65 dB at 100 feet after 9 p.m., or at 200 feet during the day, is an unlawful nuisance prosecuted in Edinburg Municipal Court under § 95.99.
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