San Jacinto, CA Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Chapter 5.58 of the San Jacinto Municipal Code governs parades through its special event rules. Section 5.58.030 defines a "parade" as a special event in which the assembly moves along a pre-established route on city streets, though spectators can attend too. Section 5.58.040(A) prohibits special events unless the director, the planning and community development director, has issued a permit under Chapter 17.640, Temporary Use and Special Event Permits. Section 5.58.040(B) exempts governmental agencies acting within their authorized function or sponsoring activities, and any parade or assembly of pedestrians organized to exercise First Amendment rights that involves a procession of persons walking on sidewalks and obeying all traffic and other laws. A procession in the roadway is outside that exemption.

Filing is governed by Section 5.58.050. Applications go in not less than sixty (60) calendar days or more than twelve (12) months before the event, with a nonrefundable fee set by city council resolution. A late application has to be considered if the event is organized to exercise First Amendment rights or the council grants a waiver, and the director has to consider a late filing for good cause. The business license fee schedule in Section 5.08.120 lists "Parade, five hundred dollars ($500.00) each."

The director has to approve an application unless a ground in Section 5.58.080 applies: false information, an incomplete application, a prior unpermitted event, unpaid costs of a prior event, a conflicting earlier application, concentrations that exceed police, fire or emergency medical capacity, route conflicts with construction or an encroachment permit, school-session noise, or failure to follow the California Fire Code. When a ground can be fixed by changing staffing, date, time, duration, route or location, the director has to approve with conditions instead of denying.

Permit conditions under Section 5.58.090 include event monitors, security approval, limits on vehicles and animals, amplified sound limits, cleanup, and emergency medical personnel for category two or three events. Insurance is $1,000,000 per occurrence (Section 5.58.130), public service fees are due ten days before (Section 5.58.140), and a nonprofit or First Amendment event can ask the city manager for a fee waiver (Section 5.58.100(B)).