Elk Grove, CA Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

This ban sits in EGMC Section 6.32.140, the Noise Control chapter's list of six per se prohibited activities, immediately after the overnight construction curfew in subsection A and just before the overnight sweeper and blower ban in subsection C. It reaches the routine that generates many residential noise complaints about deliveries: dropping tailgates, dollying crates, and banging garbage cans against a truck or dumpster, whether the objects are boxes, crates, containers, building materials, or garbage cans, if the handling happens on private property between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and rises to a noise disturbance.

The section does not tie the violation to a specific decibel reading the way EGMC Section 6.32.110 does for mechanical equipment; an officer instead evaluates whether the activity disturbed the area, similar to the general standard in Section 6.32.150. The overnight window matches the City's own construction noise curfew near residential uses in subsection A, so a delivery business scheduling overnight drops should treat 10:00 p.m. as the same cutoff contractors face. Authorized solid waste collection itself is separately exempted under EGMC Section 6.32.100(M), so a garbage truck's own collection route is not swept into this ban, but a business employee handling cans or crates outside an authorized collection is.