Redlands, CA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

56, Vehicle Abatement and Removal, was adopted under the state Vehicle Code's authority in sections 22660 and following to let cities abate abandoned vehicles as nuisances. 040 finds that the accumulation of dismantled, wrecked, inoperative, junked or abandoned vehicles on private or public property reduces property values, invites blight, creates fire hazards, and attracts children into a hazardous condition, and declares such vehicles a public nuisance except on streets, roadways, alleys, rights of way and highways. 070 sets the trigger: any abandoned, dismantled, inoperative, junked or wrecked vehicle, or a partially disassembled vehicle missing parts such as hoods, fenders, engines, wheels or windows, placed or kept for more than seventy-two hours on a residential, commercial or industrial site and visible from outside the parcel is prohibited, unless the site is a licensed impound yard, garage, dealer or dismantling yard.

050 exempts a vehicle completely enclosed in a lawful four-wall, roofed building where it is not visible from the street or other property. 080, it is the duty of every owner or occupant in control of land in the city to remove such a vehicle, and a recurrence of the same violation on the same property does not require a fresh notice. 090 if the vehicle poses an immediate hazard. The community development director administers the chapter and a three-person vehicle abatement appeals board hears appeals of abatement or charges.