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Title 9 — PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Hawaiian Gardens Municipal Code Ch. 9.28 Disorderly Conduct—disturbing the Peace

Hawaiian Gardens Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Hawaiian Gardens

Cite as: Hawaiian Gardens Municipal Code Chapter 9.28 · Text as of 2026-10-04

9.28.010 - Disorderly conduct.

No person shall engage in any disorderly or boisterous conduct, or disturb the peace by assaulting, striking or fighting within the City, or expose his/her person or any part thereof in a lewd and offensive manner in any place in the City where there are other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby, or to make in any place, or suffer to be made on his/her premises or upon premises under his/her control, any disorder or tumult, to the disturbance of the public peace, or utter in the presence of two or more persons, any bawdy, lewd or obscene words or epithets, or address another by any words, language or expressions having a tendency to create a breach of the peace, or utter or use within the hearing of one or more persons, any seditious language.

(Ord. 156 § 2, 1974; Prior Code § 4100)

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9.28.020 - Unnecessary noises.

It is unlawful for any person at any location within the City to create any noise, or to allow the creation of any noise on property owned, leased, occupied, or otherwise controlled by such person, which causes the noise level when measured on any residential, public and quasi-public institutional, commercial or industrial property, either within or without the City, to exceed the applicable noise standards found in Section 9.29.060 or Section 9.29.080 or the prohibited noises found in Section 9.29.120 of this title.

(Ord. 434 § 1, 1996; Prior Code § 4101)

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9.28.030 - Disorderly house.

No person shall keep a riotous or disorderly house, or permit any riotous or disorderly conduct in his/her house, yard, or premises connected with his/her house, or be guilty of any riotous or disorderly conduct in any house, yard or premises, whereby the peace, quiet or decency of the neighborhood of such house or of any person may be disturbed.

(Prior Code § 4151)

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9.28.040 - Disturbing the peace.

No person shall lie and sleep on any of the sidewalks, streets, or other public places within the City, or disturb the peace or quiet of any person, family or neighborhood, by drunkenness or by making loud and unusual noise, or by violent or offensive language, or by boisterous, tumultuous or offensive conduct, or by the threatening, traducing, quarreling, fighting or offering or challenging to fight, or in any other way or manner whatever shall disturb the peace, quiet and decency of any person, street or neighborhood.

(Ord. 156 § 3, 1974; Prior Code § 4306)

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