Rancho Cordova, CA Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

36's park regulations directly govern open flames and cooking within city park facilities, not private backyards or balconies. 058(A) provides that, without a permit issued by the parks and recreation director, no one may ignite, maintain or use any fire anywhere in a park facility, except in a barbecue cooker or other cooking device the director has specifically authorized for that location; using one of those designated grills does not require a separate individual permit, but starting a fire anywhere else in the park does.

Subsection (B) separately bars igniting or maintaining a fire inside any garbage can, box, trench, pit or other disposal receptacle. 056 reinforces the same limit from the refuse side: it defines an incinerator, stove, fire ring or barbecue as improper for depositing trash, since those devices exist to contain fires or cooking, not waste. 059, sits alongside these fire rules and instead carries its own $10,000 administrative penalty, distinguishing routine barbecue and campfire violations, which fall under the standard park penalty schedule, from fireworks violations.