Property Maintenance in Madera County, CA (2026)
2 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Madera County, California.
Verified from official government sources
Property Blight
Unincorporated Madera County requires beneficiaries and trustees to register, secure, and maintain abandoned or distressed residential property once a borrower defaults, and Madera County Code § 7.40.080 puts the planning department's code enforcement division in charge of prosecuting violations, treating every uncorrected day as its own offense and allowing fines up to $1,000 per day.
Madera County Abandoned Property Enforcement Rules
Significant RestrictionsMadera County Code § 7.40.080
The Madera County planning department's and its code enforcement division shall share the primary responsibility for enforcing this chapter. In addition to any other remedies provided by law, violations shall be prosecuted as described in Madera County Code Chapter 8.01. Each day a violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as suc...
Vacant Lot Maintenance
In unincorporated Madera County, vacant lots must have a thirty-foot strip cleared of weeds along every property line and street frontage each year, with an exemption for actively grazed or irrigated pasture land.
Madera County Vacant Lot Weed Clearance
Some RestrictionsMadera County Code § 7.26.030(B)
For vacant lots, a strip of land thirty feet wide from each property line and street frontage shall be cleared of weeds. Abatement is not required on any actively grazed land, irrigated pasture, or cultivated lands if the weed growth does not exceed six inches in height. Removal of the weeds and abatement of the hazard by discing, rototilling, plowing, or mowing as allowed in subsection A of t...
Property Maintenance by City in Madera County
1 cities in Madera County have their own property maintenance rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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