100 local rules on file · Pop. 1,912 · Lane County
Showing ordinances that apply to Heceta Beach, OR
Heceta Beach is an unincorporated community with a population of approximately 1,912 in Lane County, Oregon. Because Heceta Beach is not an incorporated city, it does not have its own municipal government or city code. Instead, Lane County ordinances apply directly to residential and commercial properties here. The rules below are the county-level regulations that govern your area. Nearby incorporated cities in Lane County may have different rules.
Lane County does not set a hard household pet cap, but keeping three or more dogs over six months old on a premises is a "noncommercial dog kennel" and requires the appropriate kennel…
Lane County does not license or leash cats, but a cat is an "animal" under the code, so it is covered by the continuous-annoyance noise rule and the same impound and care provisions…
Lane County's Animal Services Code has no blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but harboring an animal makes you its "owner" and responsible for it, and abandoning a domesticated animal is a…
Lane County treats animal neglect as a violation and lets Animal Services impound neglected animals. Failing to provide minimum care is a Class B violation, and neglect causing serious…
Lane County's Animal Services Code does not regulate honeybees; hive placement is a zoning matter under Lane Code Chapter 16. Beekeeping is a protected farm practice under Oregon's…
Lane County's Animal Services Code (Chapter 7) does not cap chickens or farm animals. Whether you can keep hens, roosters, goats, or cattle is a land-use question under the Lane Code…
In unincorporated Lane County, no owner may permit a dog to be at large. A "dog-at-large" is off the owner's premises and not under the owner's immediate control. Letting a dog run…
Lane County's Animal Services Code treats "exotic or dangerous animal" as a regulated category of "animal" and covers it under the same impound, licensing, and dangerous-animal…
Lane County does not ban any dog breed. Instead of breed labels, the Animal Services Code regulates individual dogs by behavior, classifying "dangerous behavior" by class after a dog…
Lane County's Animal Services Code does not set livestock-keeping limits; horses, cattle, sheep, and goats are a zoning question under Lane Code Chapter 16. Loose livestock is governed…
Guests in unincorporated Lane County pay a 10% Lane County Transient Room Tax on stays of 30 nights or fewer, plus Oregon's state transient lodging tax of 1.5% under ORS 320.305…
Unincorporated Lane County sets no dedicated STR guest-count cap. Occupancy is governed by the Oregon Residential Specialty/building code, on-site septic (DEQ) capacity and zoning…
Unincorporated Lane County has no STR-specific parking ordinance. Guest parking follows the property's zoning off-street parking standards and rural road setbacks under the Land…
Anyone furnishing transient lodging in unincorporated Lane County must register as a tax collector. Under Oregon law the administrator issues, without charge, a certificate of…
Unincorporated Lane County imposes no blanket primary-residence-only rule for short-term rentals, but rural residential ADUs approved under SB 391 / Ordinance 23-05 are barred from…
Unincorporated Lane County has no host-present (hosted-only) requirement for short-term rentals; whole-home rentals of primary dwellings are permitted subject to zoning and lodging-tax…
Unincorporated Lane County has no standalone short-term-rental permit. Operators must register with the transient-lodging-tax program (state-administered since Oct 2022) and comply…
Short-term rentals in unincorporated Lane County must follow the county's general noise regulations and nuisance code — there is no separate STR noise ordinance. Rural quiet-hour…
Unincorporated Lane County sets no annual cap on the number of nights a short-term rental may operate. Stays of 30 nights or fewer are simply subject to the Transient Room Tax; longer…
Unincorporated Lane County does not mandate short-term-rental liability insurance. Coverage is recommended and often required by hosting platforms and lenders, but no county ordinance…
Aircraft noise is not regulated by Lane County. LC 6.225.015(C) exempts sounds from sources regulated by federal law, including aircraft. Aviation noise is governed by the FAA; Eugene…
In unincorporated Lane County, nighttime (10 p.m.–7 a.m.) sound may not exceed 50 dBA at a neighbor's property line, versus 60 dBA in the daytime. Sound that is plainly audible inside…
Loud vehicle exhaust on public highways is governed by Oregon state law, not the county ordinance. ORS 815.250 requires every vehicle to have a working exhaust system that prevents…
Outdoor music at ordinary residences follows the county's 50/60 dBA and plainly-audible limits. But organized athletic, religious, educational or civic group activities at venues like…
Lane County's noise ordinance does not set fixed construction hours. Noise 'caused by commercial, industrial, agricultural, timber harvesting, utility or construction organizations or…
Industrial, commercial, agricultural, timber-harvesting and utility operations during their normal operations are exempt from Lane County's noise ordinance. Oregon DEQ set statewide…
Loudspeakers, PA systems, radios, stereos and amplified instruments are named 'sound producing devices' under Lane Code 6.225. Amplified sound may not exceed 50 dBA overnight (60 dBA…
Lane County has no leaf-blower ban. Yard and domestic tools such as lawn mowers, chain saws, drills and saws are treated as 'sound producing devices' only between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m…
Lane County uses a two-tier decibel standard: sound may not exceed 60 dBA between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., or 50 dBA between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., measured at or within the boundary of a…
A persistently barking dog can violate Lane County's noise ordinance the same as any sound source: overnight barking that is 'plainly audible' inside a neighbor's home or 50+ feet away…
In Lane County, residential yard-debris burning is regulated by the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA). Burning is only allowed on approved days, roughly mid-October through…
Oregon's statewide Wildfire Risk Map and the mapped hazard zones were repealed by SB 83 in July 2025. Lane County no longer has state-mandated wildfire hazard zones; local…
Oregon law requires working smoke alarms on every level of a home, outside sleeping areas, and inside bedrooms where building code requires. For rentals, the landlord must supply…
Backyard yard-debris fires in Lane County require a LRAPA permit and are only allowed on approved burn days during burn season. Recreational campfires are treated separately and are…
Recreational, cooking, and warming fires do not require a permit during burn season on your own property, but fire rings must be small (about 36 inches) with cleared or mowed space…
Oregon no longer imposes a statewide defensible-space mandate after SB 83 (2025) repealed the wildfire hazard map and its requirements. Clearing brush around your home is now voluntary…
Oregon law is restrictive. Legal retail fireworks cannot fly into the air, explode, or travel far on the ground. Bottle rockets, Roman candles, and firecrackers are ILLEGAL statewide…
Lane County does not set its own propane rules; residential LP-gas storage and use follow the Oregon Fire Code (adopted from the International Fire Code). Small barbecue cylinders are…
Lane County allows residential backyard composting and actively promotes it through its Waste Management program. There is no compost permit for home use, but compost must not become a…
Lane County has no ordinance regulating, requiring, or banning artificial turf for residential landscaping. Ground-cover choice is unregulated on ordinary lots, subject only to…
Lane Code 9.057.574 defines weeds more than ten inches high as "noxious vegetation," along with poison oak or ivy, tansy ragwort, thistle, and encroaching blackberry. In UGBs and…
In unincorporated Lane County, grass more than 10 inches high is "noxious vegetation" and a nuisance in urban growth boundaries and lands zoned RR-5, RR-2, RR-1 or RA. Agricultural…
Lane County has no general permit to cut a tree on your own residential lot. But commercial harvesting on forestland is governed by the Oregon Forest Practices Act (ORS 527), and…
Oregon has no statewide homeowner lawn-watering ban, and Lane County sets no county-wide outdoor-watering schedule. Restrictions come from your local water utility. In Eugene, EWEB…
Lane County requires vegetation to be kept from obstructing walkways and roads. Under LC 9.057.576(A), branches must not overhang a pedestrian way lower than nine feet or a street…
Rainwater harvesting is legal statewide. ORS 537.141 exempts collecting precipitation from an artificial impervious surface, like a rooftop, from Oregon's water-right permit system. A…
Lane County does not require homeowners to plant native species, and the noxious-vegetation code exempts nothing based on native status. In forest and riparian zones, however…
Lane County treats retaining walls as structures subject to setback and Visual Clear Zone rules. Under the Oregon building code, retaining walls over 4 feet (measured bottom of footing…
Every fence in unincorporated Lane County must stay inside the property line and preserve the Visual Clear Zone at road and driveway corners, where nothing between 2.5 and 15 feet high…
In setback areas of unincorporated Lane County, screening fences may not exceed 3.5 feet unless a registered engineer certifies no visual obstruction. Livestock wire fencing may reach…
Wood, vinyl, metal, wire and chain-link fences are all allowed in unincorporated Lane County. Livestock-style wire fencing gets a taller 7-foot allowance in setbacks; every material…
Lane County does not require a zoning permit for a typical residential fence, but fences must sit entirely inside your property line, meet setback and Visual Clear Zone rules, and a…
Lane County land-use code does not resolve shared-fence cost disputes; that is governed by Oregon's partition-fence statute (ORS 96) and civil law. County code only requires fences to…
Lane County code does not ban specific fence materials, but it singles out livestock wire fencing (excluding cyclone or chain-link) for a taller 7-foot allowance in setbacks. All…
In unincorporated Lane County, recreational and utility vehicles including boats, boat trailers, campers and utility trailers may not be parked or stored anywhere that blocks a…
Lane County treats stored inoperable or unregistered vehicles as a nuisance. In urban-growth and rural-residential areas, storing an unregistered/inoperable vehicle over 90 days (or…
In unincorporated Lane County, off-street residential parking is limited to passenger cars, vans and pickups up to one ton. Larger commercial vehicles may only be parked on residential…
Lane County's unincorporated parking code (LC 16.250) sets off-street parking-space and access standards for commercial buildings but does not create dedicated on-street loading zones…
In unincorporated Lane County, residential off-street parking is limited to passenger cars, vans and pickups up to one ton (recreational vehicles excepted), and parking areas may not…
On county roads and rights-of-way, vehicles may not be left abandoned, parked partially in the travel lane, or parked on a sidewalk. Lane County follows ORS 819.120, and camping or…
Lane County sets no special zoning restriction on home EV chargers; a residential Level 2 charger is a standard electrical installation needing an Oregon electrical permit. Oregon's…
Lane County prohibits camping and abandoned vehicles within any public road right-of-way. Under state law a vehicle left standing on a public way for more than 24 hours without…
In unincorporated Lane County, off-street residential parking is limited to passenger cars, vans and pickups of not more than one ton, so heavier oversized trucks generally cannot be…
Lane County does not operate a colored-curb-zone system for its rural roads, and residents may not paint or mark county curbs or pavement themselves. Placing unauthorized markings…
Yes. In unincorporated Lane County a swimming pool holding water over 24 inches deep is a structure under the Oregon Residential Specialty Code and needs a building permit from Lane…
A residential pool over 24 inches deep must be enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches high measured from the outside grade, under the Oregon Residential Specialty Code adopted…
Private pools follow Oregon Residential Specialty Code barrier and gate rules. Public and semi-public pools (HOA, park, apartment) must also meet Oregon Health Authority rules OAR…
Above-ground pools over 24 inches deep still need a permit and barrier under the Oregon Residential Specialty Code. If the pool wall is the barrier, its ladder or steps must be…
A hot tub or spa holding water over 24 inches deep needs the same permit and barrier as a pool, but Oregon Residential Specialty Code exempts a spa or hot tub fitted with a safety…
Oregon's statewide Cottage Food Exemption lets residents make and sell certain low-risk foods from home with no ODA license, permit, or registration, provided annual sales stay under…
A minor home occupation in the rural county has no land-use permit but must meet LC 16.290 conditions. A larger home occupation requires prior submittal and approval of a Type II…
For a minor home occupation in the rural county, Lane Code is strict: advertising signs for the minor home occupation or home office may not be displayed on the property or on any…
Lane Code 16.290 permits one home child care facility for up to ten children under 13, registered with the State under ORS 657A.330, or one group child care home for seven to twelve…
In the unincorporated county, home occupations are allowed by Lane Code Chapter 16 zoning. A minor home occupation must be conducted substantially in the dwelling or an accessory…
Turning a garage into living space is a change of use that requires a Lane County building permit and must meet Oregon Residential Specialty Code plus zoning rules. In the RR zone a…
Rural Residential (RR) lots of at least 2 acres may add one accessory dwelling unit, capped at 900 sq ft of usable floor area and located within 100 feet of the existing single-family…
In the Rural Residential zone, accessory structures must sit at least 20 feet from a State, County, or public-road right-of-way and 10 feet from other property lines. Small buildings…
A carport is a structure under Lane Code 16.290(7), so it must meet the same setbacks as other buildings: 20 feet from a road right-of-way and 10 feet from other property lines. Larger…
A tiny house on a permanent foundation is treated as a dwelling or ADU under Lane Code 16.290 and must meet building code plus the 900 sq ft ADU cap. In the RR zone, one recreational…
In the Rural Residential (RR) zone, structures other than fences and signs must sit at least 20 feet from a state, county or public road right-of-way and at least 10 feet from all…
Lane County's Rural Residential zone sets no maximum structure height; LC 16.290(7)(f) states height is "None." Structures are instead controlled by setbacks and by the state building…
Lane County's Rural Residential zone controls development density through minimum lot sizes of 2, 5 or 10 acres (shown on the zoning map) rather than a lot-coverage percentage…
Political signs may not be placed in Lane County road right-of-way, and none may block a traffic-control device. On state highways, ODOT limits new temporary signs to 12 square feet on…
Like political signs, garage-sale signs may not be placed in Lane County road right-of-way and cannot obscure traffic-control devices (Lane Code 15.205(2)). Put them on private…
Lane County has no special barbecue ordinance; grilling follows the Oregon Fire Code. The main restriction is that propane, charcoal, and other open-flame grills generally may not be…
Lane County sets no smoker-specific ordinance. Wood or pellet smokers used for cooking are treated as cooking fires under the Oregon Fire Code and are generally allowed on your…
Lane County has no separate vacant-lot ordinance; vacant parcels are governed by the general nuisance code. Storing an unregistered or inoperable vehicle over 90 days, or two or more…
In designated residential and community areas of unincorporated Lane County, no owner may allow noxious vegetation on the property or encroaching into an abutting public right-of-way…
In unincorporated Lane County, no owner may accumulate putrescible (rotting) solid waste on private property for more than seven days. It must be stored in approved litter receptacles…
Lane County has no countywide garage-sale or yard-sale permit ordinance for unincorporated areas; occasional home sales are a normal residential use. Cities such as Eugene and…
In unincorporated Lane County, accumulating solid waste, garbage, rubbish, or debris that is offensive or hazardous to public health is a nuisance under Lane Code 9.057.584…
Residents self-haul bulky items to a Lane County transfer station and pay per-item or per-load fees. Rural transfer stations (excluding Glenwood) cap garbage drop-offs at 10 cubic…
Because Lane County is self-haul, there is no countywide curbside setout rule. Waste must be stored in approved cans or receptacles, and any load hauled to a transfer station must be…
Lane County uses a self-haul system, not mandatory countywide curbside pickup. Residents in unincorporated areas either subscribe to a private franchised hauler or haul waste…
Lane County provides free recycling drop-off at its transfer stations under Oregon's mandated recycling program (ORS 459A). Accepted materials include cartons, pizza boxes, round…
Lane Code 9.010.005 bans throwing, placing, or disposing of refuse, e-waste, yard debris, construction debris, or hazardous waste on private land without the owner's permission or on…
Lane County has no county-wide dark-sky or exterior-lighting ordinance for private homes. Oregon's only statewide lighting law, ORS 455.573, requires shielded fixtures on certain state…
Unincorporated Lane County has no ordinance capping light spilling onto a neighbor's property. Oregon's shielded-lighting statute (ORS 455.573) applies only to certain state buildings…
These unincorporated areas are also governed by Lane County ordinances.