5 rules for unincorporated Alpine County, California.
Verified from official government sources
In Alpine County's serviced wastesheds, refuse must be kept in approved 32-gallon, watertight, tight-lidded containers, and bears make storage stricter: Code Section 13.12.080(E) and the Bear Control ordinance (Ch. 8.50) require garbage to be secured so it cannot lure bears. No can may be left in a public street or sidewalk.
Alpine County, California's least-populous county and entirely unincorporated, has no general blight or property-maintenance ordinance. Its only codified blight provision targets junk vehicles: Alpine County Code Chapter 8.04 declares abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles on private property a public nuisance that promotes blight and may be abated.
Alpine County has no ordinance setting vacant-lot maintenance standards such as weed cutting or debris removal. The only codified controls reach junk vehicles (Code Ch. 8.04) and refuse dumped or buried on 'any lots, land' (Section 13.12.080). General vacant-lot nuisances fall under California state nuisance and fire-hazard law.
Alpine County has no garage-sale or yard-sale ordinance. The County Code's business-regulation title (Title 5) covers only business licenses and bingo, with no permit, frequency limit, or sign rule for residential garage sales. Occasional household sales in this small, unincorporated county are effectively unregulated by local code.
Alpine County has no weed-height or grass-length ordinance and runs no local weed-abatement program. Vegetation control on this high-elevation, wildfire-prone county is governed by California's statewide defensible-space law (Public Resources Code Section 4291), not a County code. No specific grass height or fine schedule exists in the County Code.
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