Noise Ordinance
During Ocean City’s summer season, the resort has visitors and residents of all age groups and life styles. Please remember that your neighbor may be here to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet on the beach, as well as their accommodations during the night-time hours.

It is unlawful for any person to make, cause or continue any loud, unnecessary, unnatural or unusual noise, or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace and safety of others at any time, day or night.

Ocean City strongly enforces its ordinance that no disruptive noises be made between 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m., in such a manner as to be plainly heard at a distance of 50 feet from the building or structure which it is located. Maryland Motor Vehicle Law and Ocean City Town Ordinance state that no loud noise from a vehicle may be heard at a distance of 50 feet from the vehicle at any time.

Any person violating this ordinance shall, upon conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 and/or imprisonment for a term not to exceed three months, or both.