Sacramento, CA Noise from Specific Sources: Bar & Nightclub Noise (2026)

Chapter 5.108 requires any location offering live or recorded entertainment, including dancing to live or recorded music and DJ sets, to hold a general, limited, or temporary entertainment permit, and § 5.108.100 makes every 'responsible person' (permittee, owner, manager) independently obligated to obey all noise abatement laws, including those in Title 8. That duty layers a permit-revocation risk on top of the citywide exterior noise standards: under § 5.108.240(A), the city manager may suspend, modify, or revoke a permit not only for sound levels that violate the code, but for creating a nuisance, for disorderly conduct on the premises, or for failing to control patrons within 50 feet of the property line, including at closing when § 5.108.120 requires responsible persons to use reasonable efforts to disperse patrons in an orderly fashion.

Before any suspension, modification, or revocation, § 5.108.240(B) requires the city manager to personally deliver or mail written notice at least 14 calendar days in advance, stating the specific grounds; the permittee then has 10 calendar days to file a written appeal or the action becomes final, with the appeal hearing conducted by the city manager and a further appeal to the city council available under § 5.108.260.