5 rules for unincorporated Plumas County, California.
Verified from official government sources
Plumas County regulates solid waste under County Code Title 6, Chapter 10 (Solid Waste Control), administered by the Public Works Solid Waste Division. Accumulated garbage, refuse, and discarded materials on private property are treated as a nuisance subject to Code Enforcement abatement. There is no countywide curbside cart-color mandate; most residents self-haul to transfer stations.
In unincorporated Plumas County, blight conditions on private property are pursued as public nuisances by Code Enforcement. The County defines nuisance by reference to California Civil Code 3479 and enforces through notice, administrative citation, abatement, and liens. Abandoned vehicles, substandard structures, and accumulated debris are the most common blight cases.
Vacant and improved lots in unincorporated Plumas County must be kept free of nuisance conditions, including abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperable vehicles. The County's vehicle-abatement ordinance (Title 5, Chapter 8) treats such accumulations as blight and authorizes removal after a registered-mail notice of at least 10 days.
Plumas County does not publish a specific garage-sale or yard-sale permit ordinance for its unincorporated areas. Occasional residential yard sales are not separately regulated by a dedicated county permit. Sales must still avoid creating nuisance conditions (debris, traffic, leftover junk) that could be cited under the County's general nuisance and blight authority.
Plumas County regulates weeds and rubbish under County Code Title 5, Chapter 7 (Weeds), which provides for declaring weeds and combustible materials a nuisance and abating them. In this high-fire-risk mountain county, the emphasis is hazardous vegetation rather than lawn aesthetics; the County does not publish a specific grass-height number on its code pages.
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