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Property Maintenance in Sacramento County, CA (2026)

3 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 8 cities in Sacramento County, California.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Sacramento County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Property Blight

In unincorporated Sacramento County, accumulating junk, garbage, rubbish, inoperable vehicles, or storing materials that create visual blight outside a fully enclosed structure is a public nuisance enforced by County Code Enforcement under the Sacramento County Code.

Sacramento County Property Blight

Light Restrictions

Cal. Veh. Code § 22660 (Local Authority to Remove Abandoned Vehicles)

22660. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as public nuisances, of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof from private or public property, and for the recovery, pursuant to Section 25845 or 38773.5 of the Government Code, or assumption by the...

Vacant Lot Maintenance

Unimproved land that becomes a repeat dumping ground for litter, junk or discarded vehicles is a declared nuisance in Sacramento County, and the County can order the owner to fence and secure it against further dumping.

Sacramento County Vacant Lot Dumping Rule

Some Restrictions

Sacramento County Code § 16.18.401(Z) (Nuisance Code)

Any unimproved real property which has become a dumping ground for litter, garbage, junk, debris, or discarded vehicles, vehicle parts and/or vehicle hulks, and which real property has been subject to abatement on one or more occasions by the County; AA. Any conditions in violation of Chapter 15.12 (Stormwater Management and Discharge Control). Once proceedings have been commenced pursuant t...

Snow & Sidewalk Clearing

Snow is extremely rare in the Sacramento Valley. No county sidewalk snow removal ordinance exists. Owners must keep sidewalks free of debris and hazards under Streets and Highways Code 5610.

Property Maintenance: Snow Sidewalk Clearing

Few Restrictions

California Streets and Highways Code § 5610

The owners of lots or portions of lots fronting on any portion of a public street or place when that street or place is improved or if and when the area between the property line of the adjacent property and the street line is maintained as a park or parking strip, shall maintain any sidewalk in such condition that the sidewalk will not endanger persons or property and maintain it in a conditio...

Property Maintenance by City in Sacramento County

8 cities in Sacramento County have their own property maintenance rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.

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