Eden Prairie, MN Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Section 9.32 of the Eden Prairie City Code, titled Disorderly Conduct, Noisy Parties, targets both the partygoers and the person who lets the party happen. Subdivision 1 makes it unlawful to congregate on private land for, or take part in, a party or gathering whose noise disturbs the peace, quiet or repose of other people, and it does not stop at the guests: any owner or person in lawful possession of the land who knows about the disturbance and fails to immediately abate it is separately guilty of violating the section.

That knowledge-plus-inaction standard is what creates host liability; a property owner does not have to throw the party to be cited over it. Subdivision 2 covers a related but distinct scenario, a gathering on someone else's land held without the landowner present and without that landowner's written permission; the permission must be signed and dated and must be in the possession of someone at the gathering, and failing to produce it on request is treated as prima facie evidence there was no permission at all.

Subdivision 3 gives a police officer who has established a Subdivision 1 or 2 violation the authority to order everyone present, other than the owner or lawful possessor, to disperse immediately, and refusing to leave after that order is its own separate violation of the section. Because Section 9.32 does not set its own penalty, the citywide default in Section 1.03 applies: a petty misdemeanor unless the specific chapter says otherwise. In practice that means a single loud gathering can generate more than one citation, one for the noise disturbance itself and another for refusing a lawful police dispersal order.