Bakersfield Municipal Code Chapter 8 and California Health and Safety Code Section 17920.3 require buildings to be free of vermin infestations. Property owners must abate rats, cockroaches, and bed bugs when notified by code enforcement.
Bakersfield Code Enforcement and Kern County Public Health investigate complaints of rodent, cockroach, bed bug, and bird infestations under California Health and Safety Code Section 17920.3, which lists vermin as a substandard housing condition. Owners must hire licensed pest-control operators, repair entry points, manage trash, and follow state Structural Pest Control Board rules. Restaurants face additional Kern County Health rodent thresholds. Bed bug incidents trigger California Civil Code Section 1954.603 disclosure to tenants. Anticoagulant rodenticides are restricted under California AB 1788 to protect raptors.
Failing to abate vermin after a code-enforcement notice is a substandard housing violation with daily fines of 100 to 1,000 dollars, possible receivership, and emergency abatement at owner expense.
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