Boise enforces pest-free housing through its property maintenance code and the International Property Maintenance Code provisions adopted by Idaho, requiring landlords to address rodent, cockroach, and bedbug infestations and authorizing Boise Code Enforcement to issue notices and abatement orders.
Boise City Code authorizes Code Enforcement to inspect rental and owner-occupied properties responding to complaints of pest infestation creating unsafe or unsanitary conditions. The IPMC adopted under Idaho's building-code framework requires structures to be free of rodent harborage, with screening of openings and proper waste storage. Idaho landlord-tenant law under Idaho Code §6-320 obligates landlords to maintain habitable premises, and tenant remedies include three-day notice and self-help repairs in some cases. Bedbug treatment responsibility typically falls on the landlord. Central District Health partners with Boise on rodent-control efforts for chronic neighborhood issues, often involving food-waste source reduction.
Habitability violations support tenant remedies under Idaho Code §6-320; code-enforcement notices can lead to abatement at owner expense and rental certificate suspension.
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