West Covina, CA Noise Ordinances: Quiet Hours (2026)

Section 15-94 sits in Division 2, 'Specific Noise Sources,' of the noise chapter and targets home entertainment and sound-amplifying equipment specifically: radios, musical instruments, phonographs, televisions, and any device that amplifies voice or music. , and only inside residential zones. The test for a violation isn't a decibel meter reading; it's whether the sound is 'plainly audible' fifty feet from the property line, or, for condos and apartments, audible in a neighboring unit. That fifty-foot audibility standard mirrors the one used in the city's general noise section, Sec.

15-85, but Sec. 15-94 is the only provision in the chapter that attaches a fixed nighttime clock to residential noise, making it the closest thing West Covina has to a formal quiet-hours ordinance. window, a resident's radio or television isn't restricted by this section, though loud noise at any hour can still draw a citation under the separate general nuisance-noise standard. Noise sections in Chapter 15 aren't listed among the code's infraction offenses in Sec. 1, so a Sec. 15-94 violation defaults to a misdemeanor under the citywide general penalty clause, Sec.

00, imprisonment up to six months, or both, at the court's discretion, with each night of continuing noise chargeable as a separate offense. West Covina Police Department handles complaint response and citation; there's no separate noise-permit exemption built into Sec. 15-94 itself, unlike the construction-noise provision a few sections later.