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

Section 9.36.060 of the Livermore Municipal Code, in Chapter 9.36 (Noise), specifically addresses the kind of clatter generated by commercial deliveries: loading and unloading trucks, and the breaking down of bales, boxes, crates and containers. Unlike the equipment-specific sections around it, this provision carries no built-in curfew or 75-foot audibility distance; it simply bans the creation of 'loud and excessive noise' in connection with those activities at any time. The section originates in the 1960 code (Section 13B.3(d)) and was carried into the current code by Ordinance 1128 in 1983.

Section 9.36.030 lists it, along with the chapter's other enumerated provisions from Section 9.36.040 through Section 9.36.100, as an illustrative but non-exclusive example of the noise the City intends to prohibit under the general ban in Section 9.36.020, meaning a delivery, forklift beeping, pallet jack banging, or dumpster slamming that disturbs a neighbor's peace can be cited even if it does not fit neatly under another numbered subsection. Because the standard turns on whether the noise is 'loud and excessive' rather than a measured decibel level, enforcement is judgment-based: a Livermore Police Department officer or code enforcement inspector responding to a complaint decides whether the loading noise crossed that line given the time, place and duration.

Violations are processed under the citywide penalty structure in Chapter 1.16, starting as an infraction with fines set under state law and escalating to a misdemeanor on a third citation for the same conduct.