Fountain, CO Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

010, 'Disturbing the peace prohibited,' dates to the city's 1987 code recodification (Ordinance No. ' The section bars any person from disturbing or tending to disturb the peace of others through violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct, loud or unusual noises, or unseemly, profane, obscene or offensive language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Its second clause extends liability beyond the person making the noise: it is equally unlawful for any person to permit any such conduct in any house or upon any premises owned or possessed by him or under his management or control, when within his power to prevent, so that others in the vicinity are or may be disturbed.

That clause is what makes a homeowner, tenant or landlord responsible for a loud party on their own property, not only the guests causing the disturbance. 020, adds a general nuisance standard, declaring unnecessary noises upon or near streets, highways and public places a public nuisance and separately banning unnecessary, excessive or unusual noise that disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others, unless the noise is necessary to protect property or public safety. Together the two sections give Fountain police and the municipal court both a conduct-based disturbing-the-peace charge and a broader noise-nuisance charge to use against a loud gathering.