Kootenai County, ID Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)

601 sets firm mail and deadline rules once the Planning Director opens an enforcement case. Subsection C requires notices to go out differently depending on severity: an initial notice of violation with no stop-work order may be sent by first class mail, but any notice paired with a stop-work order, and any notice of violation the county records with the County Recorder, must go by certified mail, return receipt requested. Every notice must state the property owner and legal description of the parcel, describe the violation, list every remedial action required, and state the length of time allotted to fix it.

Subsection D is the response-time rule: the property owner has forty five (45) days from the date the notice was mailed to resolve the violation. If the 45 days pass without resolution, the Director files the notice of violation in the County Recorder's office and mails a copy to the owner by certified mail. Once the violation is fixed, the owner must pay the fee set in the county's adopted fee schedule (unless the enforcement action was reversed), after which the Director records a release of the notice of violation containing the corrective action taken, mailed to the owner by certified mail. 503 before the 45-day clock forces a recorded notice.