Roseville, CA Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Chapter 19.63 regulates marijuana cultivation and use citywide and folds public consumption into its public-nuisance standard. Section 19.63.060 declares it unlawful and a public nuisance to create a nuisance while cultivating or using marijuana anywhere, indoor or outdoor, and lists smoking or ingesting marijuana or marijuana products in any public place, or smoking where tobacco smoking is already prohibited, as one of the impacts that establishes the violation, alongside disturbing odors and repeated law-enforcement responses. The section also cross-references California Health and Safety Code Section 11362.3, the state list of prohibited public-consumption locations.

Enforcement runs through Section 19.63.080. A violation is itself declared a public nuisance, and the City's enforcement officer can issue a written notice and order to abate describing the violation, the evidence relied on, and the deadline to fix it. A property owner or occupant has seven calendar days from service of that notice to file a written appeal with the City Clerk; if they do, the Planning Commission's board-of-appeals hearing panel must hold a hearing at least ten days later where both sides can present evidence and cross-examine witnesses. If the order becomes final, whether because no appeal was filed or after a hearing decision, the property owner and any occupant cultivating marijuana in violation face a civil penalty of $500.00 for each day the violation continues past the abatement deadline, though the enforcement officer or hearing panel can reduce that daily rate for good cause.