POLICE LOG: Unwanted Alarm Clock As Rooster Crows At Dawn

Not everyone likes to wake up at dawn, so a neighborhood rooster is disturbing some neighbors in the area of Radcliffe Court.

A neighbor filed a complaint Monday with the Martinez Police Department about a rooster that has been crowing every day at 5 a.m. for several days.

Contra Costa County municipal code 416-12.202(a) on animal nuisances states: "No person shall own, possess, harbor, control, or keep on any premises, any dog, fowl, or other animal, that barks, bays, cries, howls, or makes any other noise so continuously or incessantly as to unreasonably disturb the peace or quiet of any two persons living in different households within three hundred feet of the location of the disturbance."

Several Bay Area municipalities, such as the Town of Corte Madera in Marin County, have considered ordinances that would allow chickens to be kept in residential areas, but prohibit roosters.

For more details on police activity in Martinez, check the attached log, or view the Martinez Police Department daily logs online.