5 rules for unincorporated San Benito County, California.
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Unincorporated San Benito County is served by Recology San Benito County under an exclusive franchise. Recology provides wheeled garbage, recycling and organics carts. The County Code treats accumulated rubbish and discarded containers as a public nuisance (Sec. 1.06.030); residents should store carts out of public view between collection days.
In unincorporated San Benito County, visual blight is a public nuisance under County Code Section 1.06.030. Accumulations of junk, trash, debris, scrap metal, abandoned appliances and furniture, and overgrown or dead vegetation that attract rodents or create fire hazards are unlawful and subject to abatement and administrative citations.
Unincorporated San Benito County has no separate vacant-lot registry ordinance, but vacant and undeveloped parcels must be kept free of junk, debris and hazardous overgrown vegetation under public nuisance Code Sec. 1.06.030. Vacant lots are also subject to the County's year-round fire hazard weed abatement program.
Unincorporated San Benito County does not publish a dedicated garage-sale permit ordinance, and garage and yard sales are treated as exempt from the County's outdoor storage and display zoning standards. Sellers should keep merchandise from creating visual blight (Code Sec. 1.06.030) and avoid blocking the public right-of-way.
Unincorporated San Benito County has no fixed grass-height ordinance, but overgrown, dead or hazardous vegetation that attracts rodents or creates a fire hazard is a public nuisance under Code Sec. 1.06.030. The County also runs a weed abatement program, and state defensible-space law (PRC 4291) requires 100 feet of clearance around homes in fire areas.
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