Mountain View, CA Curfew Laws: Juvenile Curfew (2026)

City Code Sec. and sunrise the next morning, unless accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or other person with care and custody, with two exceptions: presence connected to legitimate business, amusement, worship, or other lawful activity the minor is engaged in, or actually travelling to or from such an activity. The rule dates to a 1958 ordinance and sits in Chapter 21, Article I alongside four related enforcement sections. Sec. 4 makes it unlawful for a parent, guardian, or custodian to allow a minor to violate the curfew, and creates a presumption that the adult permitted the violation whenever the minor is found violating it.

Sec. 5 separately bars any person from assisting, aiding, or encouraging a minor to violate the curfew. Sec. -to-sunrise restriction into private establishments: no proprietor or manager of a cafe, tavern, restaurant, bar, bowling alley, or public dance hall may permit an unaccompanied minor under 18 to loiter there during curfew hours. Sec. 7 requires hotel, boarding house, lodging house, and apartment house operators to immediately report to the police department the presence of any unaccompanied minor on their premises during curfew hours, including the minor's name, age, address, and parent or guardian information so far as it can be ascertained.