Quiet hours in Jurupa Valley, CA — also called the noise ordinance, nighttime noise rules, or residential quiet time — define the hours during which excessive noise is prohibited.
Jurupa Valley caps exterior noise reaching residential property at 55 dBA Lmax during the day (7 a.m. to 10 p.m.) and 45 dBA at night (10 p.m. to 7 a.m.). Commercial areas allow 65 dBA day and 55 dBA night.
Municipal Code section 11.05.040, enacted as section 11.10.040 by Ordinance No. 2012-01 (February 16, 2012) and later renumbered, prohibits creating any sound that pushes the exterior sound level on another occupied property above Table 1 limits: 55/45 dBA for all residential designations, 65/55 dBA commercial, 75/55 dBA light industrial, 75/75 dBA heavy industrial, and 45/45 dBA at all hours in rural, agricultural, and open-space areas. Section 11.05.050 requires calibrated sound-level-meter measurements to prove a decibel violation. The city directs late-night party and music complaints to the Sheriff's Department at (951) 776-1099; California Penal Code section 415(2) separately makes maliciously disturbing another person with loud and unreasonable noise a misdemeanor.
Administrative fines escalate from $200 for a first violation to $500, $750, then $1,000 for repeat violations within 366 days (section 11.05.080). Criminal prosecution and public-nuisance injunctions are also available; Penal Code 415 carries up to 90 days jail.
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