Warner Robins, GA Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)
Key Facts
- Who is liable
- Adult resident present at the event
- Daytime distance
- 300 feet, until 11 p.m./midnight
- Nighttime distance
- 100 feet, 11 p.m./midnight-7 a.m.
- Noise types covered
- Mechanical devices and human-produced sound
- Enforcing agency
- Warner Robins Police Department
Summary
Warner Robins makes the adult in charge of a private party responsible if it produces noise audible 300 feet or more from the property by day, or 100 feet at night, under Sec. 13-83(a)(4) and (b)(4), regardless of who actually made the noise.
Party noise. It is unlawful for any person or persons in charge of a party or other social event that occurs on any private property to allow that party or social event to produce noise in such a manner that such noise is plainly audible at a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more from the building or structure from which the noise is emanating or in the case of real property, beyond the property limits, on which the party or social event is located, whichever is farthest, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight on Friday and Saturday. For the purposes of this subsection, a "person in charge of a party or other social event" shall mean any adult person who resides in or on the premises involved in such party or social event and is present at such party or social event.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
Sec. m. Sunday through Thursday and until midnight Friday and Saturday. Sec. on weekend nights). The ordinance defines the responsible party narrowly: 'a person in charge of a party or other social event' means 'any adult person who resides in or on the premises involved in such party or social event and is present at such party or social event,' so a resident host who is home when the noise happens is on the hook even if guests, not the host, are making the noise.
'Noise' for these subsections is defined by cross-reference to the same mechanical and human-produced sound categories used elsewhere in Sec. 13-83(a)(1)-(2) and (b)(1)-(2), covering everything from a stereo system to guests yelling in the yard. Sec. 13-86 layers on an additional protection for adjacent single-family residential districts, extending the same 300-foot/100-foot standards to noise crossing over from a commercial party venue.
Violations & Fines
A party-noise violation is a misdemeanor under Sec. 13-88, and the municipal court judge may order the sound source abated in addition to or instead of the misdemeanor. Because Article V does not set its own fine amount, sentencing runs through Sec. 1-7's general penalty: up to $1,000.00, up to 12 months' imprisonment, or both, with each day of a continuing violation a separate offense.
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