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

14, adopted by Ordinance 2019-01 for the camping ban and Ordinance 2015-10 for the storage rule, opens by finding that camping and unattended storage on streets and public areas interferes with the public's use of those areas and creates a public health and safety hazard, and that camping on private property without an owner's consent or sanitary measures harms both private property rights and public health. 030(a) makes it unlawful to sleep, camp, occupy camp facilities or use camp paraphernalia on a public road or public property whenever a designated "alternative accommodation," meaning an accessible shelter bed open regardless of religion, gender, age or finances, is available and the person has the means to use it.

Camping inside any Town-owned building or on its grounds is banned outright, with no alternative-accommodation exception. Camping on private property is unlawful without the owner's, agent's or lawful possessor's permission, though the ordinance exempts pulling off a public road to sleep in a vehicle when necessary for safety. 040(a) separately bars storing construction materials, tools, lumber, tarps, bedding, luggage, sleeping bags, food, clothing, papers and similar property on public property, while allowing up to three cubic feet of attended literature, food, clothing and blankets. 040(b). Town employees must make a reasonable attempt to confirm shelter availability before citing someone for camping.