Bakersfield, CA Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

05 (Aircraft) governs flight activity at Bakersfield's city-owned airport. 030, Noise Abatement, states the operative duty in full: aircraft operations must employ noise-limiting procedures toward surrounding communities, with the safety qualifier built directly into the text. 010, is to protect the health, safety and peace and promote the welfare of persons using the airport or affected by airport-related activity, and the airport operations manager is given authority under that same section to enforce all rules of the title and to issue implementing policies and procedures.

040 (Practice Landings and Touch-and-Go), lets the airport operations manager regulate touch-and-go activity whenever traffic volume makes regulation necessary for safe and orderly operation, the tool most often used to cut repetitive-pattern noise. 020 layers on a general-compliance duty: all local, state and federal laws and regulations must be followed at all times, which pulls in FAA noise and flight rules alongside the city's own abatement duty. 010(27), sets the citywide infraction fine schedule that applies to every '(I)' section in Title 19.