No Daly City-specific ordinance directly addresses leaf blowers; the municipal code's only noise controls are the general disturbing-the-peace rules of Chapter 9.22, so blowers cannot be run audibly off-property from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. State law now requires new small engines to be zero-emission.
Daly City's municipal code contains no leaf-blower-specific restrictions, and the City's Serramonte DEIR confirms the code sets no quantitative sound limits at all. Leaf blower use is therefore governed by the general rules: Section 9.22.010 bars disturbing the public peace at any hour, and Section 9.22.030 bars noise audible beyond the property between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. At the state level, Health and Safety Code Section 43018.11 (AB 1346, 2021) required the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations prohibiting exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines, the category that includes gas leaf blowers, applying to engines produced on or after January 1, 2024. That rule affects the sale of new gas-powered equipment, not the use of equipment residents already own.
There is no leaf-blower citation in Daly City; operation that disturbs the public peace (Section 9.22.010) or is audible beyond the property between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. (Section 9.22.030) is enforceable as disturbing the peace.
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