Inglewood, CA Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)
Barking dog rules in Inglewood, 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
- Annoyance to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness
- Applies in
- Any residential neighborhood
- Covers
- Any lawfully kept animal or fowl
- Adopted by
- Ord. 2042 (1970), Ord. 2295 (1978)
- Conflict rule
- City code prevails over County text
- Default penalty
- Infraction (Sec. 4-18)
Summary
An Inglewood animal that barks, cries, or otherwise makes noise loud enough to annoy or disturb a reasonable neighbor is a code violation on its own, separate from any dog-count limit. Municipal Code Section 4-15 bars any person from keeping or permitting the keeping of an animal or fowl whose sound or behavior causes annoyance or discomfort to a person of normal sensitiveness in a residential neighborhood.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep to 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 behavioral noise, shall cause annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness in any residential neighborhood.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4954608; v8 updated 2026-05-19).
Full Breakdown
Section 4-15 sits in Article 2 of Chapter 4, the City's Animal Control Code, first adopted in 1970 under Ordinance 2042 and carried forward by Ordinance 2295 in 1978. It reaches any animal or fowl 'otherwise permitted to be kept' on a property, meaning the noise rule applies on top of, not instead of, the keeping permit and two-dog rules elsewhere in Chapter 4. ' Because Section 4-13 adopts the Los Angeles County Animal Control Ordinance (Title 10 of the County Code) by reference as Inglewood's own Animal Control Code, and Section 4-14 directs that any conflict between the County text and the City's own Municipal Code provisions is resolved in the City Code's favor, Section 4-15's locally drafted noise standard governs over any general County nuisance-noise language on the same subject.
Section 4-18 separately makes most violations of the adopted County Animal Control Ordinance an infraction unless one of a listed set of County code sections is specifically designated a misdemeanor, giving Inglewood Animal Control officers and the City Attorney's Office a citation path for a documented complaint under Section 4-15 itself.
Violations & Fines
Section 4-15 does not print its own fine schedule; enforcement runs through the City's general Animal Control Code framework in Article 2, under which most keeping-related violations are charged as infractions per Section 4-18 unless the County ordinance section at issue is one of the specific sections that Section 4-18(2) designates a misdemeanor.
Frequently Asked Questions
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