Stockton addresses pest control through SMC Title 15 Chapter 24 adopting the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code. Property owners must maintain structures free of rodent, insect, and pest infestations. The code treats pest infestation as a nuisance subject to abatement under the city administrative enforcement provisions.
SMC Title 15 Chapter 24 incorporates the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code which requires all structures to be kept free from insect and rodent infestation. When infestation is found, the responsible party must promptly exterminate using approved methods. The owner of any occupied structure must be responsible for pest elimination in common areas and shared spaces. In multi-unit residential buildings, the owner is responsible for extermination when infestation exists in two or more units. Individual tenants are responsible when infestation is limited to their unit and results from tenant actions. SMC Chapter 8.12 (Property Maintenance) identifies pest-related conditions as nuisances detrimental to property values and hazardous to health and welfare. Code Enforcement through the Stockton Police Department Neighborhood Services Section responds to complaints and issues notices of violation. Failure to abate pest conditions after notice may result in administrative citations and abatement by the city at the property owner expense.
Contact your local code enforcement office for specific penalty information.
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