Bannock County, ID Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Section 17.52.420, titled 'Storage of inoperative or unlicensed vehicles in RR, RS, MU and REC zones,' governs how a Bannock County property owner may keep a car, truck or other vehicle that does not run or does not carry current registration. The vehicle cannot simply sit in the front yard: it must be placed to the rear of the front wall of the principal building on the parcel, pushing outdoor storage of a dead or unlicensed vehicle back and away from the street-facing part of the lot.

Beyond placement, the section imposes a visibility standard rather than a flat storage ban: the vehicle must be concealed from view by neighboring property owners to the greatest feasible extent, and that concealment has to take the form of fencing or screening the planning director approves, not just an informal tarp or windbreak. The rule sits in the same 'general regulations' article as the county's junkyard standards in Section 17.52.410 and its auto body and repair services standard in Section 17.52.450, both of which likewise require inoperative vehicles or vehicle parts to be screened from public view rather than banned outright, showing a consistent county approach of allowing inoperative-vehicle storage while controlling its visual impact on neighbors.

Because the standard applies specifically to the RR, RS, MU and REC districts, a property owner in one of those zones who wants to keep a nonrunning vehicle outdoors needs planning-director-approved screening or a rear-of-building placement, or both, before the vehicle can lawfully remain on the lot.