Roseville, CA Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)
Key Facts
- First response
- Written warning only, no charge
- Second response window
- Within 12 hours of warning
- Cost billed
- Personnel, equipment, mutual aid
- Minor hosts
- Parents/guardians pay costs
- Governing chapter
- RMC Chapter 9.25, adopted 2007
Summary
Roseville Municipal Code Chapter 9.25 makes party hosts personally liable for the cost of police response. Officers who answer a loud, boisterous, or disorderly gathering issue a written disturbance warning on the first call. If police must return to the same address within 12 hours for a similar disturbance, the responsible party is billed for the city's full extraordinary law enforcement costs.
When police department personnel respond to any premises or location as a result of a disturbance, including, but not limited to, loud and boisterous conduct, noises and activities, disturbing the peace, a congregation of two or more persons in intoxicated conditions or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fighting, using obscene or inflammatory language, loud music constituting a nuisance or disturbing the peace, vehicular racing and cruising, use or display of narcotics, illegal drugs and controlled substances and paraphernalia for its use, or congregating in a noisy or rowdy crowd, indecent exposure and lewd conduct, resulting in a threat to the public peace, health, safety or general welfare, the responding officers may issue a written disturbance violation warning to the responsible party. The warning shall state that if police department personnel are required to return to the same premises or location within the following 12 hour period because of further similar disturbances, each additional response shall constitute an extraordinary law enforcement response.
Full Breakdown
010 authorizes police to respond to loud and boisterous conduct, disturbing the peace, intoxicated congregations, fighting, loud music constituting a nuisance, vehicular racing and cruising, narcotics activity, or a noisy or rowdy crowd. On the first response, officers may issue a written disturbance violation warning to the responsible party, who must sign to acknowledge receipt; if the person refuses to sign or is unavailable, the warning is posted in a conspicuous location instead, and refusing to sign does not relieve the responsible party of later liability.
The warning states that any further similar disturbance requiring police to return to the same premises within the next 12 hours becomes an extraordinary law enforcement response. 015 defines extraordinary services as those necessarily and reasonably incurred by the city, over and above normal police services, because citizens failed to comply with the warning. 020, the police chief or a designee may deem the second and any subsequent response extraordinary, and the responsible party is charged for all personnel, equipment and mutual aid costs of those responses, plus any damage to city property and injuries to city personnel.
030 defines the responsible party as the person or persons in charge of the premises or location, or in charge of the event or gathering; if that person is a minor, the parents or guardians become the responsible party instead. 040 makes the cost-recovery scheme a nonexclusive remedy: the city can still bring separate civil or criminal action to abate the underlying disturbance. The chapter traces to Ordinance 4536, adopted in 2007.
Violations & Fines
A first loud-party call draws only a written warning; no fee attaches. A second or later police response to the same address within 12 hours triggers full cost recovery for personnel, equipment and mutual aid under Section 9.25.020, plus city property damage and personnel injury costs. Hosts cannot avoid liability by refusing to sign the warning or notice. Because Section 9.25.040 makes the billing scheme nonexclusive, the city attorney can still pursue a separate misdemeanor, infraction, or civil nuisance action for the same disturbance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Roseville fine me the first time police come to my loud party?
What does the city charge for a second police response?
Who is billed if the party is thrown by a minor?
Can I still be criminally cited even after paying the extraordinary response bill?
Sources & Official References
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