Warrick County, IN Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Section 158.03(E) targets the gathering itself rather than a single device: participation in any party or social gathering between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. giving rise to noise that is plainly audible across property boundaries or between partitions common to two or more persons within a building is declared unlawful. Because the rule reaches participation, liability under the plain text is not limited to whoever is hosting the event; anyone taking part in a gathering that produces plainly audible noise during the 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. window falls within the restriction.

PLAINLY AUDIBLE, defined at § 158.01, means the sound's information content is understandable to a listener outside the property, such as recognizable speech, an agitated voice, or a musical rhythm someone can make out, so a muffled gathering that cannot be understood from outside would not meet the standard even late at night. The rule sits inside § 158.03's broader list of specific restrictions, alongside the separate ban on plainly audible radios and amplifiers under § 158.03(A) and on yelling or shouting in a public street under § 158.03(F), and all of them supplement rather than replace the general nuisance-noise ban in § 158.02.

Enforcement runs through the Warrick County Sheriff's Office under § 158.07, with the Code Enforcement Officer or County Attorney filing citations in Warrick Superior Court, County Division. The exemptions in § 158.06, agricultural sounds, emergencies, sanctioned school activities and sanctioned park special events, apply to this provision the same as the rest of the chapter.