Glendale, CA Curfew Laws: Juvenile Curfew (2026)

on any day until sunrise the following day (Sec. 030). Under Sec. 040, no minor may remain in an establishment, public place or street during those hours; no parent or guardian may knowingly permit or, through insufficient control, allow a minor to remain out during curfew, or refuse to take custody of the minor when notified; and no establishment operator may knowingly allow a minor to remain on the premises during curfew hours. Sec. 050 lists nine exceptions: the minor is with a parent or guardian; on a direct errand for a parent; engaged in employment or heading to or from work without detour; attending a supervised school, religious, civic or city-sponsored activity; returning directly home from public entertainment; exercising First Amendment rights; facing an emergency; traveling interstate by vehicle, bus or train; or standing on the sidewalk abutting the minor's own or a non-complaining neighbor's residence.

An establishment operator also escapes liability if they promptly notified the Glendale police department that a minor on the premises refused to leave. on school days) applies under Sec. 060 to minors subject to compulsory education, including those suspended, expelled or mid-transfer, with a comparable exceptions list in Sec. 070. Sec. 040(C), governing parents and establishment operators, are listed in Sec. 010(D) as reduced infractions, punishable on the graduated $100/$200/$500 schedule unless a person accumulates three violations in a year, after which the misdemeanor penalty of up to $1,000 and six months applies.