Yuba City Municipal Code Title 5 (Public Welfare, Morals and Conduct), Chapter 8 — Curfew — prohibits minors under 18 from being in public places during nighttime hours, with parent/responsibility, emergency, and First-Amendment exceptions.
Chapter 8 of Title 5 of the Yuba City Municipal Code establishes a juvenile curfew. The ordinance has been on the books since 1996 and was amended in 2013 to start at 11:00 p.m. (extended from the earlier 10:00 p.m.). Minors under 18 are prohibited from being on public streets, sidewalks, parks, and other public places from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. (Sunday–Thursday) and during expanded weekend hours, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian, traveling to/from work, responding to an emergency, exercising First Amendment rights, or engaged in interstate travel. Parents who knowingly permit a curfew violation are also liable. Yuba City Police enforce the chapter and may transport curfew minors to the Police Department or a designated holding location pending parent contact, consistent with Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 625.
A first violation is generally an infraction; subsequent violations may be charged as misdemeanors under the general municipal-code penalty (Cal. Gov. Code § 36901): up to $1,000 fine and/or 6 months in county jail, though juveniles are processed through the Welfare & Institutions Code rather than the Penal Code. Parents may be cited under the parental-responsibility clause of Chapter 8.
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