Buena Park, CA Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)
Quiet hours in Buena Park, CA, also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time, define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Key Facts
- General noise ban
- Any hour, if reasonably annoying/disturbing
- Yelling/shouting curfew
- 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
- Amplified music threshold
- Audible 50 feet from property line, 10 p.m.-6 a.m.
- Construction curfew
- 8 p.m.-7 a.m. weekdays/Sat, all day Sunday
- Leaf blower hours
- Barred 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
- Enforcement
- Police chief + designated city employees
Summary
Buena Park, California bans loud or unnecessary noise that disturbs the peace at any hour, and specifically prohibits yelling, shouting or singing on public streets between ten p.m. and six a.m., under Buena Park Municipal Code § 8.28.040(A), (B)(3). The same section sets matching nighttime cutoffs for amplified music, construction, rubbish collection and landscape equipment.
It is unlawful for any person to make or continue to make, or cause to be made or continued, within the city, any loud or unnecessary noise or any noise which may reasonably be anticipated to annoy, disturb, injure or endanger the comfort, repose, peace, health or safety of others, whether due to volume or duration, or both. ... Yelling, Shouting, Etc. Yelling, shouting, whistling or singing on the public streets between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m., or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any office or in any dwelling or residence, or of any persons in the vicinity.
Full Breakdown
Section 8.28.040(A) makes it "unlawful for any person to make or continue to make ... any loud or unnecessary noise or any noise which may reasonably be anticipated to annoy, disturb, injure or endanger the comfort, repose, peace, health or safety of others, whether due to volume or duration, or both." Subsection (B)(3) then singles out a specific nighttime curfew: "Yelling, shouting, whistling or singing on the public streets between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m., or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any office or in any dwelling or residence, or of any persons in the vicinity."
The same ten p.m. to six a.m. window governs amplified sound under (B)(1): playing a radio, television, phonograph or musical instrument loud enough to be "plainly audible at a distance of fifty feet from the residential property line" during those hours is "prima facie evidence of a violation." Related nighttime limits round out the section: construction and repair work using compressors, jackhammers or power drills is barred all day Sunday and between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. other days (B)(4), rubbish collection equipment is barred within or near a residential zone between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. (B)(5), and leaf blowers and other powered landscape equipment are barred between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. (B)(6). The chief of police, designated city employees, and other officers named in § 8.28.030 enforce the chapter and may issue a notice to appear or make a warrantless misdemeanor arrest under Penal Code § 836.5.
Violations & Fines
Buena Park's code sets no separate penalty for Chapter 8.28, so a violation of the § 8.28.040 noise curfew falls under the citywide default in the general provisions: a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment of up to six months, or both, unless the city elects to prosecute it as an infraction, which carries escalating fines of $100, $200 and $500 for a first, second and third offense.
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