Truckee, CA Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Trigger
- Express notice to leave from owner, agent or police
- Re-entry ban
- 14 days without the owner's or officer's permission
- Signage required
- Posted at every entryway on property open to the public
- Notice format
- Written, in triplicate, to person, police and owner
- Adopted
- Ordinance 96-06, November 21, 1996
Summary
Truckee lets a business or property owner bar a person from loitering on posted private premises simply by telling them to leave, and makes it unlawful for that person to return for fourteen days without permission. TMC 9.17.010 targets loitering, harassment and vandalism at business premises open to the public.
1.No person shall remain upon any private or business premises after being expressly notified to keep off, keep away or remove himself or herself by the owner, owner's agent, or private security, or by any peace officer who has received a request from the foregoing persons.2.No person, without permission of the property or business premises owner or owner's agent, private security or peace officer, shall re-enter upon such premises within fourteen (14) days of being expressly notified in writing to keep off, keep away, or remove himself or herself from the private property or business premises by the owner, owner's agent, private security or peace officer.
Full Breakdown
010, adopted by Ordinance 96-06, responds to what the Council found to be a recurring problem: certain private property and business premises becoming gathering points for loitering, verbal and physical harassment of patrons, and vandalism. Under the section, once an owner, the owner's agent, private security, or a peace officer acting on their request expressly notifies a person to keep off, keep away from, or leave a private or business premises, that person may not remain there. The same person is then barred from re-entering the property for fourteen days without permission from the owner, agent, security or peace officer, and the written notice of exclusion must be issued in triplicate, with copies going to the excluded individual, local law enforcement and the property owner.
An owner or their agent must make a fresh request to a peace officer every time they need help removing someone, and must give the officer identifying details about the specific person to be removed. The whole section applies only to private property that is generally open to the public, and only if that property is posted at every clearly defined entryway with signs expressly forbidding remaining or re-entering without permission; property that is not open to the public does not need to post signs to use the exclusion power.
Violations & Fines
TMC Chapter 9.17 does not set a stand-alone fine for the private-property loitering provision, so a violation of 9.17.010 is prosecuted under the Code's general penalty chapter: an infraction on a first or second offense with a court-set fine up to $100 or $200, and a misdemeanor on a third violation within a year, punishable by up to $1,000 or six months in County jail (TMC 1.02.010, 1.02.040).
Frequently Asked Questions
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