Butte County, CA HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

" Where a CC&R and the Zoning Ordinance conflict, the same subsection directs that "the County shall follow the Zoning Ordinance," meaning a homeowners association cannot rely on the county to override a permitted zoning use just because a recorded covenant forbids it, and the county will not step in to police a covenant a neighbor believes has been breached. That split leaves two separate enforcement tracks: a homeowner or HOA board seeking to enforce a recorded CC&R must do so through the association's own governance documents or a civil action in court, while Butte County's own code enforcement addresses only violations of the Zoning Ordinance itself.

Section 24-5(F) directs that zoning violations are handled under Section 1-7 (General Penalty, Continuing Violations) and Chapters 32A (Abatement of Public Nuisances) and 41 (Code Enforcement Policies and Procedures), the same tools the county uses for any other zoning breach, not for covenant disputes. In practice, a resident whose neighbor's fence, accessory structure or land use satisfies the underlying zoning standards gets no relief from the Department of Development Services based on an HOA restriction alone, even in a subdivision recorded with CC&Rs, because Section 24-5(D) confines county involvement to the zoning code and leaves the private agreement to the parties who signed it.