Hamilton County has no STR-specific noise rule and Indiana sets no statewide numeric residential limit. Your city's general noise ordinance—Carmel, Fishers, Westfield, or Noblesville—applies to short-term rental guests just like any resident.
There is no county-level or STR-specific noise standard here. Indiana has no statewide decibel limit for residential noise, so enforcement runs through each city's general noise ordinance, which typically restricts loud or disturbing noise and sets nighttime quiet hours (commonly 10 or 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.). Those rules apply to short-term-rental guests exactly as they apply to neighbors. Some city STR special-exception approvals add noise conditions. Cities may regulate STR noise as a nuisance under IC 36-1-24, but may not use noise rules to effectively ban short-term rentals.
Noise-ordinance violations bring police response and municipal fines; repeat disturbances at a permitted STR can trigger citations counting toward permit revocation.
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