Lynwood, CA Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Lynwood Municipal Code § 3-12.11, Animals And Fowl, bars keeping or permitting the keeping of any animal or fowl, on premises a person owns, occupies or controls, that by sound, cry or behavior causes annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness in a residential neighborhood. The section reaches a chronically barking dog as readily as crowing roosters or other noisy fowl otherwise allowed to be kept in the city, and it applies without a fixed time window, unlike the nighttime radio and construction limits elsewhere in the same noise chapter.

Because the standard turns on a reasonable neighbor's sensitiveness rather than a decibel number, Sheriff's deputies and code enforcement officers weigh the same factors the chapter lists at § 3-12.6b for any disturbing-noise complaint, including the noise's level, intensity, duration, frequency and proximity to residential sleeping areas, when deciding whether a particular animal's noise crosses the line. The provision sits alongside, and is enforced separately from, the city's animal licensing and control rules in Chapter 8, so a barking complaint can proceed under § 3-12.11 even if the animal itself is properly licensed and kept within any numeric pet limits.

A sustained violation is treated as a public nuisance under the noise chapter's remedies at § 3-12.20, which lets the city seek abatement by injunction in addition to citing the owner.