Quiet hours in Daly City, CA — also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time — define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Daly City Municipal Code Section 9.22.030 sets quiet hours from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., during which no noise, music, or sound from a property may be heard beyond its confines or disturb anyone outside it. A general disturbing-the-peace ban (Section 9.22.010) applies around the clock.
Daly City Municipal Code Section 9.22.030 prohibits any person, between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, from causing, creating, or permitting any noise, music, sound, or other disturbance on their property that may be heard by, or that disturbs or harasses, any other person beyond the confines of the property, quarters, or apartment of origin. Section 9.22.010 separately prohibits making, or allowing on premises under one's control, any noise, disorder, or tumult to the disturbance of the public peace at any hour. The City's own environmental review (Serramonte Shopping Center Expansion DEIR, March 2015) confirms the municipal code does not define maximum sound level limits in quantitative terms. Chapter 9.23 additionally imposes civil fines on social hosts of loud or unruly gatherings where alcohol reaches underage persons, starting at $1,500 for a first violation (Ord. No. 1385, 2014).
Daly City police enforce Chapter 9.22 as disturbing the peace. Loud or unruly gatherings involving underage drinking draw civil citations under Chapter 9.23 of $1,500 for a first violation and $2,000 for a second, plus recovery of public-safety response costs.
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