Redondo Beach, CA Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Redondo Beach Municipal Code Chapter 32 governs police response at loud or unruly assemblages. 01, a "loud or unruly disturbance" is one or more persons causing an inordinate amount of noise or commotion, or behaving in a way that threatens public peace, health, safety or welfare, and the definition also folds in a barking dog or other animal audible for more than five minutes in any hour at a complainant's property line. The "person responsible" includes the legal resident of the property and anyone who organized, sponsored or hosted the event, all jointly and severally liable; if that person is a minor, the parent or guardian becomes jointly and severally liable instead.

02, once the responding officer determines a disturbance is occurring, the officer must give the responsible person written notice (in person where possible) that continuation will trigger personal liability for a "special security assignment" if police return. For a barking-dog disturbance specifically, no fee attaches unless the same or similar disturbance recurs more than 24 hours after that written notice. 03 makes the fee amount set by City Council resolution rather than fixed in the Code itself, and it is also charged for injury to City personnel or damage to City property occurring during the incident; unpaid fees become a debt collectible by civil action, plus penalties, costs and attorney's fees. Chapter 32 supplements, and does not replace, other law such as arrest or citation for a state statute violation.