Sioux Falls, SD Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

Sioux Falls Code Title 130 contains the city's noise and disturbance-of-the-peace provisions. The code generally prohibits making, continuing, or causing to be made any loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise that disturbs the peace and quiet of any neighborhood or that causes discomfort or annoyance to any reasonable person of normal sensitivities — including (i) shouting and loud voices, (ii) operating sound-amplification equipment audible at a property line, (iii) animal noise (barking dogs) of more than a defined duration, and (iv) construction or yard-equipment operation outside daytime hours. There is no Sioux Falls ordinance that specifically establishes "STR quiet hours" or imposes a heightened decibel standard on short-term-rental properties; STR-related noise complaints are handled under the general residential noise rules. State-law backstop comes from SDCL § 22-18-35 (disorderly conduct), a Class 2 misdemeanor: "Any person who intentionally causes serious public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another person, or creates a risk thereof by... making unreasonable noise..." can be charged regardless of the underlying property use. Sioux Falls Police respond to noise complaints by dispatched officer; persistent problem properties can be referred for nuisance abatement under Sioux Falls Code Title 120 and SDCL § 21-10-1 (civil nuisance), and Sioux Falls Code Title 51 (Property Maintenance) allows abatement assessments against the property for repeat violations.