Tracy, CA Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)
Barking dog rules in Tracy, 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
- any sound that disturbs neighborhood peace
- Covers
- dogs, poultry, and all household pets
- Legal effect
- declared a public nuisance, unlawful
- No numeric limit
- disturbance-based, not decibel-based
- In force since
- prior code § 5-2.306, recodified 2021
Summary
Tracy declares it a nuisance, and unlawful, to keep or permit any animal, poultry, or household pet on your property that disturbs a neighborhood's peace with barking or other noise, under a standalone animal-noise provision separate from the City's general noise ordinance.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall be unlawful to keep, maintain, or permit on any lot or parcel of land, any animals, poultry or household pets, which by any sound or cry shall disturb the peace and comfort of any neighborhood or interfere with any person in the reasonable and comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
250 sets a disturbance-based standard rather than a decibel limit or a time-of-day cutoff: any sound or cry from an animal, poultry, or household pet that disturbs "the peace and comfort of any neighborhood" or interferes with a person's "reasonable and comfortable enjoyment of life or property" is declared a nuisance and unlawful to keep or permit. 08, not just dogs. 120. 306 of Tracy's prior code and was carried forward unchanged in the citywide animal-chapter recodification adopted by Ordinance No. 1308 on June 1, 2021, confirming it remains current law rather than a repealed or superseded standard.
Violations & Fines
Keeping or permitting a barking dog or other noisy animal that disturbs a neighborhood is unlawful under Section 5.08.250 as a declared public nuisance, independent of any separate noise-ordinance citation. The Animal Services Officer or a Police Officer acting in that capacity can investigate a complaint and act on it using the enforcement powers set out for the Office of Animal Services in Section 5.08.120.
Frequently Asked Questions
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