Roseville, CA Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

005: residing in or using a park or private property for one or more nights for living accommodation purposes, which includes sleeping, laying out bedding, storing personal belongings such as sleeping bags or backpacks, cooking, building a fire, or occupying a tent, vehicle, motorhome, or temporary shelter overnight, regardless of the camper's stated intent. 010(A) makes it unlawful to camp or squat on public property owned by the city, an expansive list that names streets, easements, parks, dump sites, creekbeds, electric utility substations, parking lots, and corporation yards; the only carve-out is camping the parks and recreation director permits inside a park.

The section separately bars setting up tents, shacks, house trailers, motorhomes, or campers for overnight camping, and bars leaving behind any movable structure or special vehicle, such as a housetrailer or automobile, that could be used to camp. Subsection B adds a distinct rule for vehicles: it is unlawful to sleep in a vehicle parked on a public street, alleyway, parking area, or a privately owned lot used for a business's customer parking, between sunset and sunrise, without the business owner's consent. 020, separately bans camping on private property, with narrow exceptions for a landowner camping on their own land, or with the landowner's written consent, for up to 72 consecutive hours and no more than three times a year, and for lawfully permitted campgrounds or trailer parks. 010 can be charged, at the city attorney's discretion, as either an infraction or a misdemeanor.