Public Conduct in Menifee, CA (2026)
8 verified public conduct rules for Menifee, California, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Aggressive Panhandling
Menifee Municipal Code Section 11.08.040 makes it unlawful to solicit money in an 'aggressive manner' anywhere in the city, defining that to include blocking someone's path, touching them, using threatening gestures, cursing at them, or continuing to ask after they've said no.
Menifee Bans Aggressive Panhandling and Solicitation
Significant RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances § 11.08.040
(A) AGGRESSIVE MANNER shall mean any of the following: (1) Approaching or speaking to a person, or following a person before, during or after soliciting, asking or begging, if that conduct is intended or is likely to cause a reasonable person to: (a) Fear bodily harm to oneself or to another; (b) Damage to or loss of property; or (c) Otherwise be intimidated into giving money or other thing of ...
Public Urination
Menifee's unruly conduct ordinance, Municipal Code Section 11.07.020, makes public urination and public defecation a misdemeanor and a public nuisance. Both acts are listed by name inside the 'unruly or loud conduct' definition in Section 11.07.010, and the city enforces them the same way it enforces disorderly-party complaints.
Menifee Bans Public Urination and Defecation
Heavy RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances §§ 11.07.010, 11.07.020
UNRULY or LOUD CONDUCT. The obstruction of streets by crowds or vehicles; public drunkenness; public urination; public defecation; service to, possession of, or consumption of alcoholic beverages by an underage person(s); assaults; batteries; vandalism; littering; disturbances of the peace (including without limitation as a result of loud noise associated with a party, gathering, or event); con...
Skateboarding Rules
Menifee Code of Ordinances Section 13.01.090 bars reckless skateboarding, biking or wheeled riding in city parks and trails, and Section 13.01.100 sets ten specific rules for city-designated skateboarding areas.
Menifee Skateboarding Rules in City Parks
Some RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances § 13.01.100
(1) No person shall skate, skateboard, or ride a bicycle at times other than established as the hours of operation... (3) No person shall use the skateboarding areas unless proper safety equipment including a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads are worn. All such gear must be functional and protective, properly sized and designed for their intended use at the skateboarding areas. (4) Every person...
Loud Party Ordinance
Menifee Municipal Code Chapter 11.07 makes it a public nuisance to host or attend a loud or unruly gathering. Anyone who owns, rents, organizes, or supervises the property, plus a minor host's parent or guardian, counts as the responsible host and can be cited even without personally causing the disturbance.
Menifee Unruly Party Ordinance Holds Hosts Liable
Significant RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances §§ 11.07.010, 11.07.020
PERSON RESPONSIBLE or HOST. Includes, but is not limited to: (1) A person who owns, rents, leases, licenses, or otherwise has control of the property where the party, gathering, or event occurs; (2) A person in charge of the property, during a party, gathering, or event; (3) A person who organized and/or planned a party, gathering, or event; (4) A person who supervised a party, gathering, or ev...
Loitering Rules
Menifee Municipal Code Section 11.08.030(F) bars anyone from lingering or loitering on a street median or parkway, and separately bars soliciting there in any manner inconsistent with the California Vehicle Code. The rule sits inside the city's anti-solicitation chapter but bans the conduct outright, not only when panhandling is involved.
Menifee Bans Loitering on Medians and Parkways
Heavy RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances § 11.08.030(F)
(F) Medians/parkways. (1) No person shall linger on a median or parkway. (2) No person shall loiter on a median or parkway. (3) No person shall solicit upon any median or parkway or in any manner or location that is inconsistent with the provisions of the California Vehicle Code.
Outdoor Smoking Restrictions
Menifee Code of Ordinances Section 13.01.290 makes it unlawful to smoke tobacco or marijuana, or dispose of a lit cigarette or cigar, in any park area the City Manager/Community Services Department has posted with a no-smoking sign.
Menifee Park Smoking and Marijuana Ban
Some RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances § 13.01.290
It is unlawful for any person to smoke, consume, or to dispose of any lighted match or cigarette, marijuana, marijuana cigarette, for either recreational or medical use, cigar ashes or any flaming or glowing substance in any area of any park or open space managed by the City Manager/Community Services Department and specifically designated by sign as a prohibited smoking areas by the City Manag...
Public Marijuana Use
Menifee Municipal Code Chapter 11.45 bans smoking or consuming marijuana anywhere on city-owned or leased property, including parks, sidewalks, streets, parking lots and buildings. The City Council declared secondhand marijuana smoke a public nuisance in adopting the ban.
Menifee Bans Marijuana Smoking on City Property
Significant RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances § 11.45.030
In addition to all places where marijuana smoking is prohibited under state or federal law, in which cases those laws apply, no person shall smoke or consume marijuana on, and no smoking areas shall be established on, any city property.
Public Alcohol Use
Menifee bans carrying an open alcoholic beverage container onto the posted premises, parking lot, or adjacent sidewalk of any off-sale liquor store under Section 11.10.010, and within 1,000 feet of a posted bar, nightclub, or other on-sale establishment under Section 11.10.020.
Menifee Open Container Ban Near Bars and Stores
Some RestrictionsMenifee Code of Ordinances §§ 11.10.010, 11.10.020
(A) It is unlawful for any person who has in his or her possession any bottle, can or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, to enter, be or remain on the posted premises of, including the posted parking lot immediately adjacent to, any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage licensee l...
Looking for Riverside County county-wide rules?
County ordinances apply to unincorporated areas and may supplement Menifee city rules.
Public Conduct in Riverside County →