Property Maintenance in Tehama County, CA (2026)
2 rules for unincorporated Tehama County, California.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Tehama County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Property Blight
Tehama County's Dangerous Building Code lets the building official order unsafe or structurally inadequate buildings in the unincorporated area repaired, vacated, or demolished, with the Board of Supervisors deciding contested cases as the Board of Appeals.
Tehama County Dangerous Building Abatement
Significant RestrictionsTehama County Code § 15.12.020
It is the purpose of this code to provide a just, equitable and practical method, to be cumulative with and in addition to any other remedy provided by the building code, housing code or otherwise available by law, whereby buildings or structures which from any cause endanger the life, limb, health, morals, property, safety or welfare of the general public or their occupants may be required to ...
Vacant Lot Maintenance
In unincorporated Tehama County, California, a vacant urban parcel of two acres or less must be firebroken across its entire area: there's no partial-clearance option for undeveloped land.
Tehama County Vacant Lot Firebreak Rule
Significant RestrictionsTehama County Code § 9.05.050(D)(1)
On parcels of urban lands that are two acres in size or smaller and unimproved with structures, a firebreak shall be required over the entire area of the parcel.2.On parcels of urban lands that are between two and ten acres in size and unimproved with structures, and where adjacent parcels are improved with structures firebreaks shall be required adjacent to and along all parcel lines for a wid...
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