Sacramento County allows beekeeping in residential zones subject to County Agricultural Commissioner registration. Hives must be set back from property lines and located to direct bee flight paths away from neighbor activity areas.
California Food and Agricultural Code requires every beekeeper to register with the County Agricultural Commissioner (Sacramento County Ag Commissioner). Sacramento County does not have a city-style hive count limit, but nuisance rules apply if hives swarm into neighbors' yards. Best practice and Ag Commissioner guidance call for hive entrances facing away from neighbors and water sources kept on the keeper's property to reduce drinking-water competition with pools.
Failure to register is an infraction under Cal F&A Code. Nuisance hives can be ordered abated under SCC nuisance provisions; aggressive Africanized colonies may be ordered destroyed.
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Retaining walls over 4 feet (measured from bottom of footing to top of wall) require a building permit per the California Residential Code adopted via SCC Ti...
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Fences up to 7 feet in interior side and rear yards generally do not need a building permit in unincorporated Sacramento County. Front-yard fences must compl...
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Routine trimming of trees in Florin generally does not require a permit unless the tree is a heritage California oak or landmark tree under Chapter 19.04/19....
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Removal of any heritage California oak (60+ inches girth measured 4.5 ft above ground) or designated landmark tree on private property in unincorporated Sacr...
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Sacramento County Code Title 17 (Fire Prevention) and Chapter 17.12 (Weed Control) authorize the County Fire Warden and Fire Districts to order abatement of ...
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Sacramento County Code Chapter 16.18 (Neighborhood Nuisance) makes overgrown grass, weeds, or vegetation a nuisance when over 12 inches tall, completely dead...
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