Meridian, ID

Meridian bars parking that blocks driveways, sidewalks, crosswalks, fire hydrants, or bike lanes, and requires vehicles on two-way streets to park facing traffic within 18 inches of…

Meridian bars parking any vehicle under 12,000 pounds GVWR on a public street for more than 72 consecutive hours; violators face a $35 ticket under the city's parking ordinance.

Meridian allows one recreational vehicle, trailer, or boat in the front yard, requires a paved surface, and mandates a six-foot solid fence to screen it in the side or rear yard.

Meridian's unified development code requires off-street loading spaces for commercial and industrial uses, keeps them off residential-facing walls, and bans loading operations between…

Meridian prohibits parking any vehicle over 12,000 pounds GVWR on public streets for any length of time, with narrow exceptions for permitted construction work and active loading or…

Meridian sets no minimum number of EV charging stations anywhere in the city. Multi-family and subdivision developers can instead install charging stations as one option among several…

Meridian requires driveways and street-yard parking areas to be built on a compacted gravel base at least four inches thick, topped with concrete or asphalt: parking on dirt, grass, or…

Meridian classifies any junk vehicle left exposed to public view, on public or private property, as a general nuisance that can draw an immediate misdemeanor citation from code…

Idaho replaced its entire towing chapter in 2025, and Idaho Code title 49, chapter 18 is now titled Towing and Storage of Motor Vehicles. There is no statewide dollar cap on a tow, but…

Meridian caps backyard fire pits at 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, and bans burning within 25 feet of any structure or combustible material under the city's amended fire code.

Meridian limits open burning to 8 a.m.-to-sunset hours, bans burn barrels outright, and prohibits burning yard waste, tires, treated wood, and other listed materials at all times under…

Meridian's amendment to the residential code narrows the smoke alarm exceptions: home alterations, repairs, and additions trigger a smoke alarm retrofit unless the work is purely…

The Boise foothills and rural fringes of Ada County lie in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), an area of high wildfire risk. Ada County and the City of Boise have WUI planning and…

Only nonaerial 'safe and sane' fireworks (fountains, sparklers, ground spinners, smoke devices, snakes) are legal for consumers in Idaho. Aerial and audible fireworks, firecrackers…

Inside Ada County's Wildland-Urban Interface Overlay District, liquefied petroleum gas containers cannot sit within the mandatory 50-foot defensible space around a habitable structure…

Meridian bans excessive, continuous, or untimely dog barking, treating it as an infraction with a flat $100 fine per violation.

Meridian requires light and heavy industrial uses to mitigate noise, odor, vibration, and glare through setbacks, buffers, sound attenuation, or limited hours before conditional use…

Meridian bans noise audible 50 feet from its source between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., alongside a broader disturbance-of-the-peace noise standard enforced citywide as a misdemeanor.

Meridian bans noise that unreasonably disturbs neighbors at any hour, and specifically outlaws sound audible 50 feet away between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., covering amplified music, stereos…

Ada County has no separate construction-hours ordinance; construction noise falls under the general 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM prohibition in chapter 13. In June, July and August, landscape…

Aircraft and other FAA-regulated planes are expressly exempted from Ada County's general noise ordinance, so residents cannot cite Chapter 13 to stop overflight noise near Boise Air…

Ada County adopts Idaho's vehicle noise law wholesale for the unincorporated area under Code section 6-1-1, so Idaho Code 49-937's muffler and exhaust-noise rules are enforced as…

Meridian lets residents keep chickens and other livestock citywide, but requires stock-tight fencing, weekly manure removal, and quiet animals under City Code section 6-2-7.

Meridian bans owning, keeping, or harboring more than three dogs at a single residence or property, with a narrow exception for a nursing litter of puppies under six months.

Meridian requires dogs in any public place to be controlled by a leash no longer than six feet, with escalating fines for repeat violations.

Meridian has no general spay or neuter law; the mandate applies only to dogs the city has formally designated dangerous under its dangerous-dog ordinance.

Meridian does not ban dog breeds; instead animal control officers designate individual dogs as "dangerous" or "at-risk" based on bites or attacks under City Code § 6-2-6, triggering…

Ada County counts cats toward the four-animal household limit and requires rabies vaccination. An unaltered cat allowed outdoors off its owner's control is deemed a nuisance and may be…

Ada County Code 5-7-4 makes it unlawful to keep a long list of exotic and wild animals - including big cats, wild canids, primates, bears, venomous snakes, crocodilians, and marine…

On the Boise River and surrounding Ada County parks and waterways property, it is unlawful to hunt, harm, or molest any animal, or to collect the nest or eggs of any wild bird or…

In unincorporated Ada County, pet grooming is regulated as an accessory use tied to a licensed commercial kennel, not as a stand-alone shop. County Code 8-4-36(B)(4)(b) caps a grooming…

Ada County's zoning Use Table treats veterinary clinics and animal hospitals as a conditional use in the county's rural and residential districts, requiring Board or Hearings Examiner…

Ada County's animal chapter does not set a blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but harboring or feeding an animal for 24 hours makes you its "owner," and you may not take a stray animal into…

Ada County does not microchip every dog. Chipping only becomes mandatory once an Animal Control Officer formally designates a dog Dangerous or At-Risk under Code section 5-7-19: at…

Idaho requires commercial beekeepers to register apiaries annually with the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, and uniform statewide inspection rules apply to disease control and…

Meridian requires any outdoor swimming pool under its arts, entertainment or recreation facility land-use standards to be completely enclosed within a six-foot nonscalable fence…

Meridian exempts only shallow prefabricated pools from building permits: any prefab pool four feet deep or less needs no permit, but anything deeper triggers the full building permit…

Meridian caps accessory dwelling units at 900 square feet or half the primary home, requires a city permit, and limits every property to just one ADU.

Meridian exempts one-story detached tool and storage sheds, playhouses, and similar accessory structures from a building permit if their floor area is 120 square feet or less, under…

Unincorporated Ada County lets you convert an existing garage, basement, or detached accessory structure into a secondary dwelling, provided it meets the Section 8-4-23 standards, the…

Ada County Code 8-4-23(F) requires a recorded deed restriction on every secondary dwelling stating that once no owner remains living in either the main house or the ADU, the secondary…

Ada County's zoning code treats a tiny home as a manufactured home. A tiny home used as a second unit must meet the secondary-dwelling standards of Section 8-4-23 (350 to 1,200 sq ft…

Ada County Code 8-4-23(B)(3) requires that either the principal home or the secondary dwelling stay continuously occupied by at least one person with an ownership interest in the…

Family child care for six or fewer kids counts as a home occupation accessory use in Meridian and needs a city accessory use permit plus compliance with noise, sign, and parking…

Meridian allows home-based businesses as an accessory use in every residential zoning district, but operators must get a city accessory use permit and follow strict use, size, and hour…

Meridian restricts home occupation client, customer, and employee visits to between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. citywide, one of several accessory use permit conditions for home-based…

Meridian lets home occupations post one on-site sign, capped at six square feet, nonilluminated and permit-free, under the residential sign standard the home-occupation rule adopts.

Idaho requires no cottage-food license, permit, or registration. You may make non-potentially-hazardous foods in your home kitchen and sell them directly to consumers without a Health…

Idaho has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and cannot issue one, because the Idaho Food Code flatly bars the premises. IDAPA 16.02.19.620 provides that except for cottage food…

Meridian classifies weeds and other undesirable plant growth over eight inches tall as a nuisance, triggering a code enforcement notice, a five-day abatement deadline, and possible…

Meridian's nuisance ordinance requires trees to keep 8 feet of vertical clearance over sidewalks and 14 feet over streets; branches that fall short are declared a nuisance tree the…

Meridian requires site and landscape plans to protect existing trees of four-inch caliper or larger during development, and mandates full-caliper mitigation for any that are removed…

Ada County Code 8-3-5(E)(4)(a) requires rainwater harvesting on any commercial or industrial building over 10,000 square feet and any single-family home over 25,000 square feet…

Ada County's zoning code caps traditional bluegrass lawn at 50% of any landscape area and directs developers toward native, low-water plant material on projects that require master…

Ada County Code 5-2-4-2(E) allows composting on any parcel as long as it never becomes a public nuisance by attracting flies, harboring rodents, or creating noxious odors. Private…

Meridian prohibits electric wire and barbed wire as fence components citywide, with a narrow commercial/industrial exception for barbed wire set high above grade.

Meridian caps residential fences at 6 feet in side and rear yards, drops to 3-4 feet in the street yard, and allows 8 feet in commercial and industrial zones, with extra corner-lot…

Meridian requires a fence permit before installing any fence, with one exception: fences installed alongside a building permit for the main structure don't need a separate fence permit.

Any retaining wall in unincorporated Ada County with a total vertical height of four feet or more, footing included, must be engineered and permitted under the Ada County Building…

Ada County zoning lets a six-foot fence sit on the perimeter boundary between neighbors, but any sight-obscuring fence near a street corner must not block the clear-vision triangle…

Idaho law bars Ada County and its cities from requiring a short-term-rental permit or conditional use permit in a residential zone. STRs are treated as ordinary residential uses, so no…

Ada County may set STR occupancy limits, but only up to the same maximum that building code allows for any non-transient residence. Idaho Code 67-6539 bars stricter guest caps aimed…

Ada County cannot limit how many nights per year a short-term rental operates. Idaho Code 67-6539 prohibits imposing a limit on the days a property can be rented, so no annual night…

Ada County cannot require extra off-street parking just because a home is a short-term rental. Idaho Code 67-6539 forbids STR-specific parking mandates; the dwelling's normal…

Ada County cannot require short-term-rental operators to carry additional insurance. Idaho Code 67-6539 bars STR-specific insurance mandates, though hosts should still carry adequate…

Ada County cannot limit short-term rentals to owners' primary residences. Idaho Code 67-6539 expressly bars requiring owner occupation for any amount of time, so non-owner-occupied and…

Ada County STRs (stays of 30 days or less) owe Idaho's 6% state sales tax plus the 2% state travel-and-convention tax. Properties inside the Greater Boise Auditorium District also owe…

Every off-premises billboard in Meridian is classified nonconforming, so no new ones can be permitted, and any sign that strobes, flashes, or revolves, including digital billboard…

Meridian limits garage-sale signs to four per sale, six square feet each, requires the property owner's permission to post one, and requires removal within 24 hours after the sale…

Meridian exempts holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting standards, including lumen caps and cutoff-shield rules, as long as the display doesn't create light trespass or blind…

In Meridian, window signs count toward a business's overall building sign allowance and are capped at one square foot of sign for every four square feet of window area.

Ada County's sign code is content-neutral, so it does not single out political signs. Temporary signs, including yard signs, are allowed without a permit: in residential districts up…

Every new development in Meridian must include an adequate storm drainage system built to the city's adopted standards and specifications, with design and construction following…

Meridian requires a floodplain development permit and elevation two feet above base flood elevation for any construction in its Floodplain Overlay District.

Every new development in Meridian must install an adequate storm drainage system built to the city's adopted standards, and subdivisions must integrate vegetated stormwater swales or…

In Meridian's mapped floodplain, new construction and substantial improvements must elevate the lowest floor at least two feet above the base flood elevation, the city's required flood…

Any new construction or alteration of a habitable structure inside Ada County's Wildland-Urban Interface Overlay District must maintain a 50-foot defensible space clear of flammable…

Meridian prohibits burning, burying, or dumping solid waste anywhere within city limits, and bans discarding waste in streets, alleys, vacant lots, or waterways under City Code section…

Meridian's franchised hauler collects bulky waste and major appliances on request, but only from the curb and for a fee set by the city's fee schedule.

Meridian requires every residential customer to use franchisee-provided wheeled carts, with solid waste collected weekly and recyclables picked up every other week on the day the…

Meridian requires yard waste, branches, and organic debris to be cut to 4 feet or less and bundled before it goes in your cart, per city code.

Meridian residents must set wheeled carts at the curb no earlier than 24 hours before pickup and by 7:00 a.m. on collection day, positioned within 4 feet of the curb-face.

Commercial properties in Meridian must screen dumpsters from public streets and build code-compliant concrete pads with minimum clearances before a franchisee will place a container or…

Meridian's franchised hauler collects residential recycling every other week in a wheeled cart provided on request, alongside weekly trash pickup, under the city's solid waste…

Ada County Code 5-2-10(L) makes it illegal to take recyclable material out of a bin set out under the county's contracted residential recycling program without permission from the…

Ada County Code 5-2-4-1 requires every reachable residential property in the unincorporated county to receive, and pay for, the contracted solid waste collection service, with built-in…

Meridian classifies any building so dilapidated it menaces public health or safety, including fire hazard, as a general nuisance subject to misdemeanor prosecution without prior notice.

Meridian names snow or ice on a public sidewalk abutting private property an abatable nuisance. After a code enforcement notice, the owner or occupant has 5 calendar days to clear it…

Idaho law puts the cost and duty of weed control on landowners even for vacant, unimproved parcels. Idaho Code 22-2407, adopted locally through Ada County's Noxious Weed Control…

Food trucks operating alongside an existing Meridian business must get Central District Health Department and Fire Department permits before opening, keep to the host business's hours…

Meridian requires anyone operating a traveling or door-to-door sales unit to hold a City Clerk-issued mobile sales unit license, on top of any state, health department, and tax…

Food trucks are principal-permitted as truck courts and accessory to businesses in Meridian's commercial and industrial zones under the Unified Development Code.

Meridian makes it unlawful to camp or sleep on public property, public building grounds, or the public right-of-way citywide, with narrow exceptions for authorized events, designated…

Meridian outright bans camping or sleeping on public property, including sitting or lying for a prolonged time on sidewalks, parks, or rights-of-way, with a $100 infraction fine.

Adult entertainment establishments need a conditional use permit and must sit 1,000 feet from churches, schools, residential zones, and each other.

Meridian zoning bans vehicle repair as a home occupation accessory use, meaning no auto repair business may operate from a house, garage, or yard in any residential district.

Anyone buying, trading, or pawning gold, silver, platinum, or palladium items in Meridian for resale needs a Precious Metal Dealer License or a pawnbroker endorsement, plus…

Meridian requires a city-issued pawnbroker license, background check, and Chief of Police approval before anyone can loan money on pledged property or buy secondhand goods for resale…

Meridian bans under-18 entry, sets an 11 p.m.-6 a.m. closure, and bars on-site food or drink sales in smoking-product consumption lounges citywide.

Non-consent law enforcement towing in unincorporated Ada County requires an annual license from the Ada County Sheriff under Code section 6-4-8. Only one license per company owner, no…

Meridian requires outdoor light fixtures of 1,800 lumens or more to use a full cutoff shield and opaque top, and caps light trespass onto residential lots at 0.1 foot-candle.

Meridian caps light spilling onto neighboring residential property lines at 0.1 foot-candle, measured 60 inches above grade at any angle, under the city's outdoor lighting standards…

Ada County Code 8-3-12(K)(6) lets billboards be illuminated only if they meet the county's general outdoor lighting standards in Section 8-3-8, and it bans flashing or intermittent…

Meridian bans operating a drone in city parks whenever other people are present, grouping it with remote-controlled toys and vehicles under the parks code's general prohibitions.

Ada County Code 5-4-10 bans flying a drone in ways that harass or endanger people, invade a reasonable expectation of privacy, or interfere with firefighters or public safety officers…

Commercial drone use in Idaho is governed primarily by FAA Part 107, which preempts most state and local regulation of airspace. Idaho Code 21-213 still applies to surveillance and…

Meridian sets minimum rear, side and street setbacks by residential zoning district in its Unified Development Code dimensional-standards tables.

Meridian caps residential building height by zoning district under Title 11: 35 feet in R-2, R-4, and R-8, 40 feet in R-15, and 60 feet in R-40, with narrow exceptions for…

In unincorporated Ada County's Rural Residential (RR) zoning district, Title 8 Chapter 2's dimensional standards table caps lot coverage, the footprint of every structure on a parcel…

Meridian requires a temporary use permit for neighborhood block parties, filed with the City Clerk at least 30 days ahead, with Ada County Highway District approval needed for any…

Meridian requires special event organizers to get a temporary use permit at least 30 days ahead, and street fair vendors need the organizer's authorization rather than a separate city…

Special events and outdoor markets in any Meridian city park need a temporary use permit from the City Clerk's Office, plus an amenity reservation if the event uses reservable park…

Restaurants and cafes in Meridian's city core must get a City of Meridian use zone encroachment permit before placing tables, chairs, or dining barriers on the sidewalk in front of…

Meridian requires a City Clerk-issued temporary use permit before any parade, race, march, or special event, plus Ada County Highway District approval for street use; applications are…

Meridian prohibits lighting, using, or consuming any tobacco product or electronic smoking device in city parks, though parking lots within those parks are exempt from the ban.

Meridian bans consuming or carrying an open container of any alcoholic beverage on public property or property open to the public, including streets, sidewalks, and parking lots…

Meridian makes it a misdemeanor to host a party that disrupts the peace or lets a minor drink, and can order the host to pay emergency-response costs.

Meridian makes it an infraction to urinate or defecate on the ground anywhere within city limits, with a flat $100 fine per violation.

Meridian bans skateboards, scooters, and bikes on ornamental surfaces, picnic tables, benches, tennis courts, fountains, splash pads, playground equipment, and planters in city parks…

Ada County bars loitering on the grounds of its Public Safety Complex on Barrister Drive unless the person is there under contract to provide goods or services. The ordinance defines…

Meridian requires a city franchise to run a shared e-scooter or e-bike program and bans parking scooters in travel lanes, bike lanes, or blocking sidewalks.

Meridian bans stopping, standing, or parking any vehicle in a designated bicycle lane, or within 20 feet of a bike lane approach, under City Code § 7-2-2.

Ada County Code 2-2-10(G) bans e-bikes from the Ridge to Rivers foothill trail network but allows them on the paved Boise River Greenbelt. The county defines an e-bike, under 2-2-2, as…

Idaho has no golf-cart street-legal scheme at all. What it has is a neighborhood electric vehicle regime: Idaho Code section 49-123(2)(j) defines an NEV as an emission-free…

Meridian bars anyone under 18 from public places between midnight and 5 a.m. unless an exception applies, under City Code section 6-4-1.

Meridian city parks are open daily from dawn to dusk, 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, and staying past closing without authorization is a $100 infraction…

Meridian's elective water-conserving landscape design option caps lawn and turf at 50% of total landscaped area, using approved drought-tolerant grasses, in exchange for a reduced…

Meridian's landscaping code requires new development to irrigate with nonpotable or reuse water instead of potable water whenever the city public works department determines it's…

Placing tables, planters, barriers or signs on the city core sidewalk use zone requires a City of Meridian use zone encroachment permit from the Director.

Leaving personal property on any public sidewalk in Meridian is a general nuisance and a misdemeanor, unless the city has issued a written permit or other law allows it.

Meridian adopts the 2017 Idaho State Plumbing Code and requires a city permit stating the work, cost, and address before any plumbing is installed, altered, or repaired within the city.

Meridian adopts the 2018 International Building Code citywide and requires a permit for construction work, except one-story detached accessory structures like sheds or playhouses under…

Meridian requires carbon monoxide alarms outside sleeping areas in new homes with fuel-fired appliances or attached garages, under its local IRC amendment.

Meridian requires a city permit before any electrical wiring, fixture, or apparatus work, under the 2017 NEC as locally amended.

A building permit in unincorporated Ada County stays alive for three years from issuance. If the work isn't finished and the final inspection isn't performed and the project approved…

Ada County deletes the 2018 International Residential Code's automatic fire sprinkler mandate for one- and two-family homes outright, so new detached houses and duplexes built in the…

Ada County's building code lets a home-based daycare for 12 or fewer children operate as an ordinary single-family home (Group R-3) instead of triggering a commercial day-care…

Anyone operating a traveling or door-to-door sales business in Meridian must hold a City of Meridian mobile sales unit license, issued by the City Clerk after a criminal background…

Ada County bars peddlers and solicitors from any home posted 'No Peddlers Allowed' or 'No Solicitation Allowed,' and confines door-to-door activity to 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m…

Meridian's only rodent-control ordinance applies to licensed mobile home parks under City Code § 3-11-13: grounds and buildings must stay free of rodent harborage, with debris removal…

Meridian limits garage sales to four per address per calendar year, three consecutive days each, with a 30-day gap between sales and no hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Ada County Code 2-2-5(A) confines cooking fires on county parks and waterways property to gas and charcoal grills; any other fire needs the Parks Director's advance approval for an…

Ada County regulates commercial barbecue pits under section 5-2-7-3, requiring outdoor pits to be built of concrete or noncombustible material, set back 10 feet from combustible…

Rooftop, pole and ground-mounted solar panels are an accessory use in unincorporated Ada County and require a Zoning Certificate from the Planning and Development Director under Ada…

Unincorporated Ada County lets a homeowner install solar panels on an existing detached structure through a simple Director-issued zoning certificate, even if the structure itself…

Idaho Code Section 55-3208 prohibits homeowners associations from adopting or enforcing covenants that limit or prohibit rooftop solar panel installation, preempting contrary CC&Rs…

Ada County Code section 8-9-5 creates a Board-appointed Historic Preservation Council that surveys local historic sites, nominates properties to the National Register, and reviews any…

Ada County exempts land zoned in a rural area district from its own Nuisance Ordinance. Code section 5-9-3, as amended by Ordinance 1014 effective January 20, 2026, now excludes…

Ada County lets owners of qualifying farmland petition the Board of County Commissioners to designate their property an Agriculture Protection Area (APA). A minimum of five contiguous…

Ada County Code 8-13B-8 sets the street-tree standard for the Cartwright Ranch Planned Community: on curbed, guttered streets with sidewalks, trees in the right-of-way planting strip…

Ada County makes it unlawful to knowingly keep a state-designated noxious weed on your land under Noxious Weed Control Ordinance section 5-8-3. The county doesn't publish its own…

Ada County caps residential density in a Planned Unit Development at three dwelling units per acre unless the comprehensive plan sets a higher urban density, but a builder can earn up…

Ada County Code 1-13-3 sets the minimum investment a business must make to qualify for the county's property tax exemption on new plant investment at three million dollars. Set under…

Because Idaho Code 37-2732 prohibits sale and delivery of marijuana, no marijuana dispensaries may legally operate anywhere in Idaho. There is no state licensing scheme, and no city or…

Idaho Code 44-1502 preempts local minimum wage ordinances, holding all Idaho cities and counties to the state minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the same as the federal floor.

Idaho permits residents 18 and older to carry concealed firearms statewide without a license under Idaho Code 18-3302, while still offering enhanced and standard permits for…

Idaho Code 18-3302J broadly preempts local government regulation of firearms, ammunition, and components, voiding city or county gun ordinances that exceed state law and protecting…

Idaho is an open-carry state allowing any person legally able to possess a firearm to carry it openly without a permit, with local restrictions preempted under Idaho Code 18-3302J…

Idaho's constitution bans gambling outright except for three narrow carve-outs, one of them 'bingo and raffle games ... operated by qualified charitable organizations' (Idaho Const…

Idaho Code section 18-3801 defines gambling broadly and lists exactly five things it does not cover: skill contests, valid business contracts, additional-play-only games, incidental…

Idaho's constitution permits only three narrow forms of gambling: a state lottery, pari-mutuel horse and dog racing, and charitable bingo or raffle games, and sports wagering is not…

Idaho's Homeowner's Association Act lets an HOA levy assessments for common-area maintenance and record a verified lien against a lot. Idaho Code § 55-3207 expressly permits the…

Idaho HOAs are governed by their declaration plus the Homeowner's Association Act and the Idaho Nonprofit Corporation Act (Title 30, Ch 30). Idaho Code § 55-3204 requires open board…

Idaho has no statute setting general covenant or architectural-review standards: enforcement flows from the recorded declaration. The Homeowner's Association Act limits HOA power in…

Idaho Code § 55-3210 stops a homeowner's association from adding, amending, or enforcing any covenant that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, four flags: the flag of the…

Idaho Code § 55-3206 bars any HOA fine unless the authority to fine is 'clearly set forth in the covenants and restrictions.' The board must vote by majority and give at least 30 days'…

Idaho runs two separate assessment-lien regimes and only one of them carries a power of sale. In a condominium governed by the Condominium Property Act, Idaho Code section 55-1518…

Idaho has a road block statute, and it does not authorise sobriety checkpoints. Idaho Code § 19-621 lets sheriffs, state policemen and policemen of cities of the first or second class…

Idaho has no standalone right-to-record statute, and it does not need one to make recording your own encounter lawful. Idaho Code § 18-6702(2)(d) says it is lawful for a person to…

Idaho never enacted a stop-and-identify law. Nothing in the Idaho Code requires a person stopped on the street to give a peace officer a name, and Idaho Code § 19-603 gives officers…

Idaho has no statute telling an ordinary driver what consenting to a car search means, and none saying that an odour, a lawful substance or a refusal cannot supply grounds. Idaho has…

Idaho Code 6-303 makes a tenant guilty of unlawful detainer after defined breaches. For nonpayment of rent the landlord serves a three-day written notice to pay or quit; for other…

Idaho Code 6-320 makes a landlord liable for failing to keep a rental in habitable condition, listing duties such as waterproofing, working plumbing, heating, electrical and sanitary…

Idaho has no statute governing landlord entry into a residential rental. State law sets no required notice period or permitted hours, so access is controlled entirely by the lease. In…

Under Idaho Code 55-208, either party may end a tenancy at will (month-to-month) by giving written notice of 'not less than one (1) month.' The same one-month written notice applies…

Idaho prohibits local rent control. Idaho Code 55-307 bars any local governmental unit from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that would regulate rent…

Idaho sets no statutory limit on how much a landlord may charge for a security deposit. Under Idaho Code 6-321, deposits must be refunded within 21 days, or within a longer agreed…

Idaho requires 20 years of continuous, open, hostile possession to claim title by adverse possession, plus payment of all taxes throughout. This applies to oral claims (Idaho Code…

Idaho Code 67-2340, enacted in 2016, prohibits cities and counties from regulating, banning, or imposing fees on auxiliary containers, including plastic bags, polystyrene, and other…

Idaho Code 39-5703 sets 21 as the minimum age to purchase tobacco, vapor products, and alternative nicotine products, aligning state law with federal Tobacco-21 and barring local age…

Idaho does not ban flavored tobacco or vapor products at the state level, and local flavor bans face significant preemption questions under the statewide tobacco licensing framework in…

Idaho Code § 49-918 lets any motor vehicle carry up to two spot lamps, two fog lamps, two auxiliary passing lamps and two auxiliary driving lamps, each with its own mounting height…

Idaho never wrote a windshield-device statute. Idaho Code § 49-943(1) bans only a sign, poster or other nontransparent material on the windshield or the side or rear windows that…

Idaho has never enacted either a lane-splitting ban or a lane-filtering allowance. Chapter 6 of title 49 runs from section 49-663 on neighborhood electric vehicles straight to section…

Idaho never uses the words cover, frame, shield or tint anywhere in title 49 in connection with a license plate. The rule that catches plate covers is Idaho Code section 49-428(2)…

The word radar does not appear anywhere in the Idaho Code, and neither does laser, speed measuring device or any equivalent. Idaho Code § 49-902(1) makes it unlawful to drive a vehicle…

Idaho writes its studded-tire rule as a closed season rather than an open one. Idaho Code section 49-948(3) prohibits motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers with tires having…

Idaho Code § 49-944 lets you put nonreflective film on the front side windows and rear window down to 35% light transmission, and on the windows behind the driver down to 20%, with a…