Harrisburg's quiet hours: The City of Harrisburg does not specify general quiet hours for all noise. However, municipal waste collection with mechanical equipment and the use of leaf blowers, powered lawn mowers, and other powered landscape maintenance equipment are prohibited between 8:00 PM and 6:30 AM.. During these hours, noise must stay below residential nighttime decibel limits at the property line. Violations can result in fines on the first offense.

Call the Harrisburg police non-emergency line at 717-558-6900. For ongoing violations, contact code enforcement at Text CODE to 605-777-0110 or submit online via City of Harrisburg website. Have the address, noise type, and duration ready. You can request to remain anonymous.

Harrisburg's noise violation penalties: Violations of the Noise Control and Abatement Chapter (3-343) are subject to penalties outlined in Chapter 3-399. General noise pollution violations carry a fine of no more than $600 plus costs, or imprisonment for up to 90 days, or both, with each day of violation considered a separate offense. For more than five violations by the same person/business per calendar year, the minimum fine is $500. Animal noise nuisance violations may incur a fine of $50 for a first offense, increasing to $100, then $215 plus court costs for subsequent offenses.. Fines typically escalate with repeat offenses and may result in misdemeanor charges for chronic violations.

Harrisburg's rules: Keeping or harboring any animal that creates excessive noise, such as frequent and habitual barking, howling, screeching, yelping, or baying, which disturbs the quiet of any person or the community, is declared a nuisance.. To report a barking dog, contact animal control at 717-558-6900 or the police non-emergency line.

Harrisburg's construction noise rules: Construction or repair activities are declared noise disturbances, but exemptions exist for work necessary to preserve life or property during prohibited hours if a permit is obtained within one day after the City Engineer's office opens.. Violations can be reported to code enforcement, which can issue stop-work orders for unpermitted or off-hours construction.

Yes. Harrisburg's ordinance: The operation of sound trucks or other amplifying devices for advertising on public highways is prohibited. Use of radios, stereos, loudspeakers, or other sound-producing devices plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet from the source in residential or nonresidential areas, or 75 feet in Liquor Control Board exempted areas, is a violation on public streets. Pennsylvania state law permits licensed establishments to play amplified music up to 75 decibels between 10 AM and 9 PM (Sun-Thurs) and 10 AM and midnight (Fri-Sat), but Harrisburg has an exempted area where its local ordinance applies.. Music exceeding residential decibel limits or plainly audible across property lines during quiet hours is a citable violation.