Cleveland, OH Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

Section 686B.06(g) folds Cleveland's general noise ordinance into the short-term rental chapter by name, prohibiting excessive or unnecessary noise in violation of the Codified Ordinances, including but not limited to Section 605.10, at the property at all times. That means a gathering loud enough to violate the city's baseline noise rule at any hour, not just late at night, is also a violation of the STR regulations and standards under § 686B.06, separate from and in addition to whatever citation applies under § 605.10 itself.

The chapter backs this up with related host obligations that bear on noise complaints: § 686B.02(g) requires a 'local contact' who must be reachable by phone or in person at all times guests are on the premises and able to reach the property within one hour of a call, and § 686B.06(i)-(j) requires that contact's name and phone number be given to every transient guest and to all adjacent, across-the-street, and behind-the-property neighbors before the unit is first occupied by a paying guest. A pattern of noise-driven nuisance complaints also feeds directly into § 686B.04(d)(1), which mandates license revocation once three or more nuisance activities, as defined in § 630.01, occur at the property within any 12-month period, so repeated noise problems can escalate from a per-incident fine into losing the license outright.