California ? Curfews usually target gang members and delinquents — not a city mayor.

But council members in South El Monte, a suburb of Los Angeles, got fed up that Mayor Blanca Figueroa worked so late, often into the wee hours of the morning, that they ordered her out of City Hall at 11 p.m.

“I’ve been doing this for years,” Figueroa fumed this week. “No one cared, no one knew. Why now?”

Until recently, Figueroa blissfully burned the midnight oil in the company of her four Siamese fighting fish — Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel — which she keeps at the office. But after a rash of break-ins in the parking lot, members of the council said her hours posed a hazard to her safety and a liability for the city of 21,000 about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

Figueroa, who is single and has no children, said she won one concession from the council — she can stay until 1 a.m. on days of meetings.

“I literally feel I’m married to the city,” Figueroa said. “It’s 24/7.”