Baldwin Park, CA Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)
Barking dog rules in Baldwin Park, CA, also called nuisance dog, dog noise, or excessive barking ordinances, define when a barking dog becomes a code violation and how complaints are handled.
Key Facts
- Standard
- disturbs a reasonable, normally sensitive neighbor
- Applies to
- owner, occupant or premises controller
- Threshold
- no fixed decibel or duration
- Adopted
- Ordinance 1114, 5-1-96
- Max penalty
- $1,000 fine, 6 months jail
Summary
Baldwin Park prohibits keeping any animal or fowl that, through sound, cry or behavior, causes annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable, normally sensitive person in a residential neighborhood, under Municipal Code § 130.37(C), reaching any owner, occupant or controller of the premises where the animal is kept.
(C) Animals and fowl. No person shall keep or maintain, or permit the keeping of, upon any premises owned, occupied, or controlled by such person any animal or fowl otherwise permitted to be kept which, by any sound, cry or behavior, shall cause annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness in any residential neighborhood.
Full Breakdown
37(C), within the Special Noise Sources subchapter adopted by Ordinance 1114 in 1996, states that no person shall keep or maintain, or permit the keeping of, upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by that person any animal or fowl otherwise lawfully kept which, by any sound, cry or behavior, causes annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness in any residential neighborhood. 37. Liability attaches to whoever owns, occupies or controls the premises where the animal is kept, not only the animal's legal owner, so a tenant or property manager can be responsible for a barking dog kept on their property.
36, which lets a court issue a restraining order or injunction against any device, instrument, vehicle or machinery, a category into which a chronically noisy animal's keeping arguably falls when it endangers the comfort, repose, health or peace of area residents.
Violations & Fines
A § 130.37(C) violation carries the citywide misdemeanor penalty under § 10.99, up to a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail; a court may separately order abatement by restraining order or injunction under § 130.36 if the barking persistently endangers neighbors' comfort or peace.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a set number of minutes a dog can bark before it's a violation in Baldwin Park?
Who can be cited if a rental property's dog barks constantly?
What can a neighbor do beyond calling police about a noisy dog?
Sources & Official References
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