Peoria, AZ

Above-ground pools in Peoria must meet the same barrier and safety requirements as in-ground pools. Pools with walls under 5 feet require additional fencing to meet the barrier height…

Peoria enforces strict pool barrier requirements per city code and ARS 36-1681. All pools, spas, and hot tubs with water over 18 inches deep must be enclosed by a barrier at least 60…

Arizona's Protected Native Plant Law (ARS 3-901) protects saguaro, palo verde, ironwood, and other species. Removal requires a state permit. Peoria encourages desert-adapted…

Trimming, cutting, or removing any tree along a Peoria street, alley, or park takes written sign-off from the City Arborist first, whether you're a homeowner clearing a limb over the…

Peoria's Drought Contingency Plan lets the City Manager declare four escalating water deficiency stages, from a voluntary 5% reduction goal at Stage 1 up to mandatory Water Emergency…

Peoria caps weeds and grass at six inches under City Code Section 17-3(l). Lots larger than an acre can rely on a firebreak between adjacent properties instead of mowing the whole…

Peoria may regulate removal of trees in certain developments and planned communities. Native desert trees on development sites may require preservation or replacement as part of the…

Unincorporated Maricopa County doesn't require a permit for a backyard compost bin, but the Environmental Health Code does require one the moment composting rises to an 'establishment'…

Peoria requires a permit before anyone builds a fence or wall taller than seven feet anywhere in the city, and a separate Engineering Department permit for any fence or wall placed…

Peoria treats a retaining wall as a code-regulated structure once it crosses set height thresholds. Under Section 20-257, any retaining wall over 3 feet must be designed by a civil or…

Barbed wire is banned everywhere in Peoria except on General Agriculture and Suburban Ranch zoned lots, temporary construction sites, and commercial or industrial security fencing six…

Peoria caps residential front-yard fences and walls at three feet and side or rear yard fences at seven feet under Section 21-312.B.1 of the Zoning Ordinance. Corner lots get an extra…

A Peoria fence or wall has to sit entirely on the builder's own property unless the neighbor signs a written agreement letting it straddle the division line, a rule Section 21-312.A.2…

Peoria zones pet grooming as part of a "Pet Shop" use under City Code Sec. 21-505(B)(2). Grooming has to stay inside an enclosed, soundproofed building during regular business hours…

Peoria limits dogs/cats to a combined total typically allowed in residential zones and treats hoarding under AZ §13-2910 animal cruelty. Maricopa County Animal Care & Control (MCACC)…

Feeding wildlife in a Peoria park, along with touching, chasing, or otherwise harassing any animal, reptile, or bird, is banned outright under City Code Section 7-66(a)(12) unless the…

Keeping an exotic or dangerous animal in Peoria is a registration requirement, not an outright ban: Sec. 16-9(a) makes it unlawful to keep any poisonous, dangerous or carnivorous wild…

Peoria does not require every pet to be sterilized, but it does require it before a stray dog or cat leaves the pound with a new owner. Section 16-31(c) conditions any pound sale on…

Peoria has no breed list: vicious-animal status turns entirely on behavior. Section 16-1 defines a vicious animal as any carnivore that has a propensity to attack, and Secs. 16-15 and…

Peoria regulates backyard livestock and poultry through Chapter 16's animal code rather than a stand-alone chicken ordinance. Swine are banned within the City outright under Sec…

Peoria treats cats differently from dogs: City Code Sec. 16-41(a) exempts cats outright from the citywide animals-at-large ban that covers every other animal, bird and rodent. A cat…

Peoria dogs may never run at large: City Code Sec. 16-34 requires every dog to stay inside a fenced enclosure on the owner's property or on a leash no longer than six feet when off it…

A veterinary clinic in Peoria is a distinct Animal Related Use under the Zoning Ordinance, regulated more tightly than a pet shop or kennel: Sec. 21-505(B)(3) limits a clinic to…

Arizona requires every beekeeper to register apiaries with the State Department of Agriculture, regardless of city rules, and follows uniform statewide pest and disease management…

Peoria sizes and sets back accessory buildings on a sliding scale in Section 21-315.C: sheds under eight feet tall and 200 square feet can sit right on the side or rear property line…

Peoria adopted International Residential Code Appendix Q, which sets simplified construction standards for tiny houses, then narrowed the local definition: a tiny house must measure at…

Peoria allows one attached and one detached accessory dwelling unit on a standard single-family lot under Section 21-316, capping each ADU at seventy-five percent of the main house's…

Maricopa County does not require an owner to live on the property when adding an accessory dwelling unit. ADUs may be rented long-term independently, with no familial or employment tie…

An accessory dwelling unit in unincorporated Maricopa County can be rented long-term with no family or employment tie to the main house, but only one ADU per lot may ever be used as a…

Peoria escalates civil penalties against short-term rental owners for repeat violations of the city's vacation rental chapter within a rolling 12-month window at the same property: up…

Peoria bars renting out a vacation rental without a valid Arizona transaction privilege tax license and requires proof of TPT compliance on the vacation rental permit application, with…

Arizona state law (SB 1350) limits cities from banning short-term rentals but allows regulation of safety and nuisance issues. Peoria requires STR operators to obtain a Transaction…

STR guests in Peoria must comply with the city's noise ordinance. The 50-foot audibility standard applies to all properties including short-term rentals. Operators should post house…

Peoria's STR ordinance (No. 2022-20) requires operators to obtain a free permit and comply with safety standards. Standard homeowner's insurance may exclude STR activity. Platform…

Peoria's STR ordinance (No. 2022-20) requires residential use standards for STR properties. Arizona preemption limits city-specific caps. STRs must comply with noise, parking, and…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, an accessory dwelling unit used with a short-term rental means the property owner must live on-site, unless the ADU's certificate of occupancy…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, an owner renting out a short-term rental with an accessory dwelling unit must live on the property, unless the ADU's certificate of occupancy…

Peoria bars loud, raucous blowers, power fans and internal-combustion equipment in residential or noise-sensitive areas between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if the noise carries across the…

Peoria treats the 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. window as presumptively quiet hours: any noise made in that stretch is presumed loud, raucous or unreasonably disturbing under City Code Sec…

Peoria caps noise measured 50 feet from the source property line at set decibel levels that shift by zoning district and time of day. Residential areas fall to 55 dBA overnight…

Peoria has minimal commercial airport noise impact. Luke Air Force Base in neighboring Glendale occasionally affects southern Peoria with military aircraft noise. Military aircraft are…

Peoria bans loud nighttime vehicle repairs in residential zones and requires every vehicle on the road to run a defect-free exhaust system with a working muffler, under City Code Sec…

Peoria caps live bands and sound-amplifying equipment, radios, TVs, boomboxes, stereos and musical instruments at 55 dBA measured 25 feet from the property line, and separately…

Peoria limits construction noise to set daily windows that shift by season and zoning: work near homes runs 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in summer and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in winter, while commercial…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, County Ordinance P-6 makes it unlawful for a dog owner to let their dog bark, yowl, or yip excessively, with the county's enforcement agent…

Peoria's Fire Code Official can classify property in the city's northern desert reaches as Wildland/Urban Interface, triggering the 2018 International Urban-Wildland Interface Code. On…

Peoria requires an Activity Permit before any open burning, issued under the 2018 International Fire Code as locally adopted. The permit costs $75, must be applied for at least 30 days…

Peoria bans dead, dormant, or dried-out plant growth that is readily flammable on any premises under City Code Section 17-3(k). Where a firebreak is used instead of full clearance, the…

Storing, using, handling, or dispensing more than 120 gallons of propane in Peoria requires an annual renewable Fire-Medical Department permit under Fee Table 27-14(a), and inspections…

Peoria's amended International Residential Code requires every dwelling to carry smoke alarms installed per IRC Section R314. The rule sits inside the city's local rewrite of the…

Peoria restricts fireworks use. Consumer fireworks (permissible consumer fireworks) may be used on designated days around certain holidays but are otherwise prohibited. Display…

Recreational fires for cooking, warmth, or enjoyment using clean dry wood or charcoal do not require a permit in Maricopa County. Propane and natural gas fire pits are allowed without…

An RV, travel trailer, boat or utility trailer can sit in a Peoria driveway or side yard indefinitely once it is screened, but leaving it in public view on single-family residential…

Abandoning a vehicle on a Peoria street, on any public land or on private property is a civil violation under City Code Section 14-118. A court can add the City's or a tow operator's…

Peoria has no blanket curfew banning overnight street parking, but a vehicle left unattended in the right-of-way for forty-eight hours becomes prima facie evidence of an abandoned…

Any Peoria office, hotel, restaurant, retail, industrial or storage building with 5,000 square feet or more of gross floor area must provide off-street truck loading berths under…

Peoria bans parking a tractor, semi-trailer, trailer or bus in a residential zone except while loading or unloading, and caps any commercial vehicle's idling at twenty minutes a day…

Peoria bans parking on bare dirt at a house. City Code Section 17-3(b) requires a dustproof surface at least three inches thick, such as concrete, asphalt, chip seal, or bordered and…

Peoria regulates on-street parking through posted signs and time limits. Vehicles may not be parked on city streets for extended periods. Abandoned or inoperable vehicles are subject…

Maricopa County doesn't require EV charging spaces in parking lots. Instead, the Travel Reduction Program lets major employers earn plan credit for installing on-site charging stations…

Arizona sets no statewide cap on what a private towing company can charge to remove a vehicle from private property: A.R.S. § 9-499.05(A) only lets an incorporated city or town…

Peoria bans home-business signage outright. City Code Section 21-320(B)(1)(b) makes any sign advertising a home occupation strictly prohibited, and companion rules in the same section…

A Peoria home occupation running by-right may host only one business caller or visitor at a time, and no more than two visitors per hour, under City Code Section 21-320(B)(1)(e). Cross…

Peoria treats a home-based business as an accessory use of the dwelling under City Code Section 21-320, allowed by-right if it stays invisible to the neighborhood or by Conditional Use…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, a home daycare for up to four children is a by-right use in every residential zoning district, but only if it meets seven operating conditions in the…

Unincorporated Maricopa County lets food establishments serve or sell food made in a private home under Arizona's cottage food law, but only if the customer gets a copy of the required…

Arizona has no home restaurant permit. There is no microenterprise home kitchen operation licence, no meal count allowance, and nothing in A.R.S. § 36-136(I)(4) that exempts a home…

Peoria lets mobile food and merchandise units operate almost anywhere with the property owner's written permission, but the zoning code fences the use tightly: no closer than 250 feet…

Peoria regulates food trucks through zoning use-specific standards rather than a stand-alone permit. A vendor needs the property owner's written permission, must stay 250 feet from…

Peoria requires a Finance Department permit and fee before anyone, including food vendors, can sell from a street or sidewalk. Vehicle-based vendors face added limits on sound devices…

Peoria's Solid Waste Division holds an exclusive right to collect residential trash within city limits, and the City Manager or a designee sets the actual pickup dates and times. Only…

Peoria's recycling containers are only for the acceptable materials the City lists, and putting non-recyclable items in one under City Code Section 22-10(e) means no more pickups until…

Peoria, Arizona splits large-item disposal into two lanes: free bulk trash and brush left curbside within strict size limits, and a paid special-item haul for appliances, furniture and…

Dumping, littering or scattering solid waste or recyclables on any private or public property in Peoria is a class one misdemeanor under City Code Section 22-9(c). A judge must order…

Commercial dumpsters and roll-off containers larger than two cubic yards, or any container accessible to the public, must display the responsible party's name and phone number under…

Peoria, Arizona requires residential solid waste containers to go to the curb after 6:00 p.m. the evening before collection and come back behind the front setback by the day after…

Peoria residents must bag grass clippings, leaves and small tree cuttings before setting them out, and City Code Section 22-23(d) caps every bag at 60 pounds and 3 feet in length so…

Arizona forbids selling plastic bottles and rigid containers unless they carry a molded resin identification code, the familiar number inside the chasing-arrows triangle. A.R.S. §…

Peoria taxes hotel and short-term lodging income at a combined 5.6% transaction privilege tax: a 1.8% base rate under City Code § 12-444 on every hotel operator's gross lodging income…

Peoria requires a Conditional Use permit for any Adult Use and bars it from operating within 1,000 feet of a school, park, library, or another Adult Use, and within 500 feet of a…

Anyone conducting or operating a massage or bodywork establishment in Peoria must hold a City license separate from the individual practitioner's state license, per City Code § 11-165…

Peoria pawnbrokers must electronically report every pledge or purchase within two business days, including the seller's ID, fingerprint, and photograph, and can lose their license for…

Peoria outright bans auto repair as a home occupation. City Code Section 21-320(B)(3)(e) lists 'vehicle services such as repairing, painting, storage, washing, or sales' among the home…

Peoria requires a license for every secondhand sales business, including antique dealers and automated kiosks, with a criminal-history review, an annual renewal cycle, and mandatory…

A Peoria property owner must post signs stating the parking restrictions, the disposition of violating vehicles and the maximum towing and storage fees before authorizing a non-consent…

Peoria treats tattoo parlors and body piercing studios as conditionally permitted personal-service uses under its zoning code, grouping them with pawnshops, plasma centers and liquor…

Peoria taxes business activity through a classification-based privilege (sales) tax under City Code Chapter 12. Sec. 12-400 levies a separate tax on gross income for each business…

Peoria's city manager or a designee is authorized to investigate any complaint of a civil-sanction code violation, then may issue a citation formatted like Arizona's Uniform Traffic…

Peoria's Neighborhood Services division enforces Chapter 17 of the City Code against the property conditions residents report most: rubbish and debris left in yards, and garbage or…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, the Abatement Officer must inspect a property after any weeds, rubbish, or dilapidated-building complaint, then give the owner at least 30 days to…

Peoria exempts heating and cooling equipment from its general noise limits, so a properly running AC unit or heat pump is not a code violation even if a neighbor hears it, per City…

A motor vehicle burglar alarm in Peoria must stop sounding within 15 minutes of activation unless an emergency exists, and a false or accidental alarm more than twice in a calendar…

A commercial establishment next to residential property, including its outdoor patio, cannot make unreasonably loud noise between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. weekdays or 11:00 p.m. and…

Peoria bars unreasonably loud, raucous or excessive noise from loading or unloading a vehicle at a business or residence between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays, and between 11:00…

Maricopa County's noise ordinance bans generator noise reaching neighboring homes: if generator sound is audible from inside a closed residential structure within 500 feet of your…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, amplified music and bass-heavy stereo or speaker noise is illegal once it can be heard inside a closed residential structure within 500 feet of the…

When Peoria's City Manager designates a residential rental property a "slum property" under A.R.S. § 33-1901(3), Peoria City Code § 18-8 lets the owner appeal for a $150 fee, and…

Every new single-family or duplex home in Peoria (Group R-3) must be built with a residential fire sprinkler system covering the full fire area, no exceptions listed for ordinary…

Peoria requires a building permit for nearly all construction under its locally amended 2018 International Building Code, administered by the Development and Engineering Department…

Peoria enforces plumbing work under the 2018 International Plumbing Code, adopted and locally amended by City Code Section 18-44. City amendments set a 12-inch minimum burial depth for…

Peoria enforces electrical work under the 2017 National Electrical Code, adopted and locally amended by City Code Section 18-41. The city's amendments add extra ground-fault protection…

Peoria's building official inspects all permitted construction under the local IBC amendments at City Code Sec. 18-21(B). Work must stay accessible and exposed until approved, swimming…

A Peoria day care serving five or more children in a residential district must hold Arizona Department of Health Services certification, keep signage off the street view, and fence…

Unincorporated Maricopa County has adopted the International Green Construction Code, but only as a voluntary standard: the Local Additions and Addenda make clear no builder has to…

Peoria City Code § 17-72(b) bans smoking within 50 feet of a public-place entrance, within 50 feet of any playground area in a public or private park, and within 50 feet of a…

Peoria City Code § 17-71 makes it unlawful to smoke, consume, or possess marijuana or marijuana products in any open space or public place in the City of Peoria, Arizona. Consuming on…

Peoria parks allow beer only, and only inside a ramada or concession area. City Code Section 7-65 bans all other alcoholic beverages outright, requires a Beer Permit for any group of…

Peoria makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate in a public place, or anywhere else where another person with a legal right to be present can observe the act. City Code Section 13-63…

When Peoria police respond twice or more to the same loud party, gathering or event, City Code Section 13-100 lets the court order the 'person responsible' to pay restitution for the…

Peoria bans soliciting money, goods or services in an aggressive manner in any public area, inside transit vehicles or stops, and within 15 feet of a bank entrance, ATM or…

Peoria bars skateboarding, roller skating, bike riding and other personal riding devices on any city or state property posted against it, and specifically prohibits those activities at…

Peoria's amended International Property Maintenance Code, City Code § 18-4, requires every rental structure's habitable spaces to have heating and cooling systems capable of holding…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1368, Arizona landlords must give a 5-day written notice for nonpayment of rent and a 10-day notice to cure for other material lease violations before filing…

The Arizona Residential Landlord-Tenant Act preempts the field of residential eviction grounds and procedures, preventing cities from imposing just-cause eviction requirements beyond…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1343, an Arizona landlord must give at least two days' notice of intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times for legitimate purposes such as inspections…

A.R.S. § 33-1375 requires 30 days' written notice to end a month-to-month tenancy (10 days week-to-week). Breaking a fixed-term lease early can incur damages, though landlords must…

Arizona prohibits local rent control. State law makes rent regulation on private residential property a matter of statewide concern and preempts the field, so cities, charter cities…

Arizona has no statutory cap on how much a landlord may raise rent and no dedicated rent-increase notice statute. For a month-to-month tenancy, a rent change is implemented by serving…

Arizona caps security deposits at one and one-half month's rent. After the tenancy ends and the tenant requests it, a landlord has 14 days (excluding weekends and legal holidays) to…

Arizona's adverse possession periods are tiered: 2 years by right of possession alone (A.R.S. § 12-522), 3 years under color of title (§ 12-523), 5 years under a recorded deed with…

Peoria requires a permit for every solar photovoltaic installation and layers on fire-code marking and roof-access rules on top of it. DC wiring must carry red-and-white photovoltaic…

Arizona law bars homeowners associations from banning solar energy devices outright. A.R.S. § 33-1816 lets an association adopt only reasonable placement rules, and only if those rules…

Peoria's Tree Ordinance limits which trees can go into the parkway strip between the sidewalk and street. City Code Section 7-52 caps acceptable Street Tree Species to low-water-use…

Arizona's Protected Native Plant Law (ARS 3-901) protects native trees statewide. Peoria requires tree preservation in development landscape plans. Native species (saguaro, palo verde…

Reserving a Peoria park facility or holding an organized gathering there runs through a formal permit application to the Community Services Department under City Code Section 7-72. The…

Anyone who wants to hold a parade, march, ceremony or procession on a Peoria street needs a permit from the chief of police first, under City Code Section 14-189. The application must…

Peoria restaurants can add outdoor dining or patio seating as an accessory use without a Conditional Use Permit as long as the patio sits at least 200 feet from the nearest…

Peoria requires a Temporary Use Permit before anyone runs a carnival, craft show, exhibition, fair, festival or similar special event under City Code Section 21-160. Applications go to…

A neighborhood block party in unincorporated Maricopa County counts as a "Special Event" occupying county right-of-way, and Ordinance P-36 requires a Right-of-Way Permit from the MCDOT…

Outdoor cooking in a Peoria park is confined to barbecue containers inside a ramada. City Code Section 7-69 bans open fires anywhere else, requires constant supervision of any fire…

Peoria bans camping anywhere in the city, public or private property, except in a handful of narrow situations. Sleeping outdoors or in a parked vehicle between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m., or…

Peoria limits garage and yard sales to fewer than 60 consecutive hours and fewer than five sales per premises each calendar year under City Code Section 17-3(v). The five-sale cap…

Peoria carves out a narrow exception to its shielding code for billboard lighting: bottom-mounted outdoor advertising fixtures skip the Table 20-60 shielding and filtering standards…

Peoria's Outdoor Light Control Code requires every nonexempt outdoor fixture, from parking lot lights to landscape lighting, to be fully or partially shielded and filtered per Table…

Peoria bars outdoor light fixtures from spilling onto a neighbor's land. Section 21-302(F) requires lighting in a non-residential zoning district to be shielded so the light source…

Parking a motor vehicle inside a designated Peoria bicycle lane is unlawful unless a sign says otherwise, under City Code Section 14-106(a)(15). For cyclists themselves, riding a…

Peoria follows Arizona's three-class e-bike system under City Code Section 14-140(c): Class 1 and 3 assist only while pedaling and cut off at 20 or 28 mph, while Class 2 has a throttle…

Arizona runs two separate low-speed classes and gives neither one a local street-designation scheme. A neighborhood electric vehicle, the state's version of a federal low-speed…

In Peoria, the owner or lessee of any lot abutting a public sidewalk must keep it in good repair for safe pedestrian use under City Code Sec. 23-40. Abutting owners also owe a duty to…

Peoria makes it unlawful to obstruct any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public property under City Code Section 23-5(a), covering everything from blocking a business's access…

Anyone wanting to place a minor encroachment, like a small underground line or a removable surface feature, in a Peoria public right-of-way needs a revocable right-of-way permit from…

Peoria, Arizona requires large turf developments near a reclaimed water line to irrigate with reclaimed water instead of potable supply, and bars pools, gardens and human contact uses…

Peoria customers must repair a water leak on their property within 14 days of discovery, and the Water Services Director may impose civil sanctions between $250 and $1,000 for each day…

Peoria makes it unlawful for any peddler, solicitor, or canvasser to knock or ring a doorbell at a home posted with a "no peddlers, solicitors, or canvassers" sign. The rule gives…

Peoria requires anyone going house-to-house to sell goods, services, or subscriptions to register with the police department and carry a license, with fingerprinting, background…

Peoria bars recreational marijuana establishments citywide except for a dual licensee that also holds a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary registration. There is no zoning district…

Peoria keeps marijuana dispensaries and manufacturing, cultivation, or testing facilities on a tight zoning leash. Each use must sit at least 2,640 feet from another such facility…

Under Proposition 207, adults 21+ in Arizona may grow cannabis at home for personal use. Individual limit is 6 plants; households with 2+ adults may grow up to 12 plants. Plants must…

Peoria bans discharging anything but stormwater into its municipal storm drain system and prohibits illicit connections outright. City Code Section 24-130 lists narrow exemptions like…

Peoria requires a Development Permit from the Floodplain Administrator before any construction, fill, or manufactured home placement in a Special Flood Hazard Area, with the lowest…

Peoria requires a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan before it issues a grading permit for any site subject to earthwork. Section 20-258(e) ties the SWPPP directly to the NPDES…

Peoria's floodplain code defines the base flood elevation as the computed 100-year flood level, then adds a one-foot freeboard on top of it as the Regulatory Flood Elevation. New or…

Diesel trucks over 14,000 pounds are barred from idling more than five consecutive minutes anywhere in Maricopa County, with $100 first-offense and $300 repeat civil penalties under…

Peoria's Downtown (D) District, bounded by 85th Avenue, Peoria Avenue, Grand Avenue and Monroe Street, requires every land use, even one permitted by right, to comply with the Peoria…

A density bonus exists only in the Highway 74 Scenic Corridor overlay, letting developers double base density if they leave part of a parcel undeveloped.

In unincorporated Maricopa County, no parcel inside a Planned Area Development (PAD) overlay can be built on until the county approves a Specific Development Plan for it. The plan must…

Peoria's single-family setback table in City Code Section 21-420(A) tightens as lot size shrinks: front setbacks run 10 to 35 feet depending on garage orientation, side yards drop as…

Maximum lot coverage in Peoria's single-family districts scales with lot size under City Code Section 21-420(A): 30 percent on the largest R1-43 lots, climbing to 45 percent on the…

Every single-family residential district in Peoria, from the acre-lot R1-43 down to the compact R1-6, caps principal building height at 30 feet under City Code Section 21-420(A), and…

Peoria's General Agriculture (GA) zoning district under City Code § 21-683 sets aside land for farming, livestock, and open-field uses as a holding district until more intensive…

Peoria's Chapter 16 animal-keeping restrictions, covering noise, odor, swine bans, and mammal setback and headcount caps, carve out land properly zoned for agriculture. Section 16-10…

Window signs in Peoria need no permit under City Code § 21-709, Table 3, but non-residential window signage is capped at 25 percent of the total window area on any building side…

Freeway-facing monument signs in Peoria need a sign permit under City Code § 21-709, Table 2, and are capped at 250 square feet and 60 feet in height (plus 3 feet for architectural…

Peoria allows electronic message centers on permanent signs wherever changeable copy is otherwise permitted under City Code § 21-709(C), but caps LED brightness at 0.3 foot-candles…

Peoria lets residents and businesses display holiday and seasonal decorations without a sign permit under City Code § 21-707(C), but caps the display at 60 days total per season and…

Political signs in unincorporated Maricopa County are regulated by the MCZO and Arizona state law (ARS 16-1019). Signs may be displayed 60 days before an election and must be removed…

Peoria closes its parks overnight. Under City Code Section 7-63, Community and Neighborhood Parks shut down from 10:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., multi-use trails close 10:30 p.m. until…

Peoria bars minors ages sixteen and seventeen from public streets, alleys or other public places between midnight and 5:00 a.m., and bars anyone under sixteen from the same places…

Peoria property owners must keep land up to the curb and half of any bordering alley free of insect and rodent infestation. City Code Section 17-3(j) treats infestation, along with…

Maricopa County requires every food establishment's Person in Charge to train Food Employees on foodborne disease prevention within 30 days of starting food-handling work, and to keep…

Maricopa County's Environmental Health Code bans harboring bed bugs on any premises and requires owners to eliminate an infestation once Environmental Services orders it, with permit…

Unincorporated Maricopa County has no separate curbside rule for used needles or sharps. Instead it regulates them as biohazardous medical waste under Chapter II, Section 10 of the…

A vacant lot left disturbed and undeveloped for more than 15 days in Peoria's non-attainment area must be revegetated, watered, gravel-covered, or otherwise stabilized under City Code…

Peoria condemns and abates unsafe or dangerous buildings under Building Code Section 116, cross-referenced from the Property Maintenance Code at Section 108.1. A vacant, unsecured…

Peoria confines all drone and model-aircraft flying to Operations Sites the Community Services Department designates inside city parks and preserves, under Peoria City Code Sec. 7-75…

Flying a recreational drone in a Peoria park comes with real restrictions: City Code Section 7-75 confines hobby drones to City-designated Operations Sites at least 400 feet across…

Unincorporated Maricopa County treats a commercial drone or autonomous-vehicle fleet operation as an industrial land use, not a home or retail one. The Zoning Ordinance's use table…

Peoria's Desert Lands Conservation Overlay bans specific invasive trees, shrubs, and groundcovers from new development landscaping, including bottle tree, non-native olive, Chilean…

Peoria requires a Filming Permit for commercial filming on city property, city facilities, or public rights-of-way, with a $1 million/$3 million insurance certificate, a five-day…

Peoria's Historic Preservation Commission can recommend that the City Council designate an individual property a "Landmark" or a group of properties a historic district under Sec…

Peoria's zoning code does not enforce or override the CC&Rs, easements, or deed restrictions of a homeowners association. Section 21-106(E) says the City does not intend to interfere…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1807, unpaid assessments in an Arizona planned community become an automatic lien on the lot, and the association may charge late fees and interest if the declaration…

Arizona heavily regulates HOA governance: A.R.S. § 33-1804 requires open board and member meetings (with limited executive sessions) and lets members record them, A.R.S. § 33-1812…

Arizona does not give homeowners a general right to xeriscape, gravel, or desert landscaping over an HOA's objection; that stays governed entirely by each community's own declaration…

Arizona law bars homeowners associations from banning outdoor display of eight protected flags, including the American, Arizona state, POW/MIA, Gadsden and first responder flags. Under…

Arizona law caps how much a homeowners association can fine a member and forces the board to give notice and a hearing first. A.R.S. § 33-1803 limits late charges on an unpaid penalty…

Arizona bars an association from foreclosing an assessment lien until the owner passes a dollar figure or a time period, and the trigger is not the same in every community. In a…

Arizona homeowners associations cannot block a member's right to rent unless the declaration itself prohibits it or limits rental time periods. Once a unit is rented, A.R.S. §…

Peoria's Zoning Ordinance defines a Data Center as a facility housing large computer systems and lets it in by right only in the city's business park and industrial districts, BPI…

Cryptocurrency mining rigs and server farms fall under Maricopa County's 'Data Center' zoning definition, restricting them to industrial-zoned parcels in unincorporated county land…

Maricopa County has no decibel limit; Noise Ordinance P-23 uses an audibility standard. Data center cooling and generators must not be heard inside closed homes within 500 feet of the…

Arizona preempts most local paid leave mandates, while requiring statewide earned paid sick time under Proposition 206 and ARS 23-371.

Arizona allows permitless concealed carry for adults 21 and older, while still issuing optional CCW permits that enable reciprocity with other states.

Arizona broadly preempts cities, towns, and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, and related accessories beyond state law.

Arizona permits open carry of firearms by adults 18 and older without a license in most public spaces, subject to limited location restrictions.

Arizona lets a nonprofit with federal 501(c) tax-exempt status run a raffle without a gambling license under A.R.S. Section 13-3302(B), so long as it has operated in-state for a full…

Arizona law defines "social gambling" in ARS § 13-3301(9) and excludes it from criminal liability under § 13-3302(A)(2). A private game qualifies only if no player collects more than…

Arizona legalized event wagering, commonly called sports betting, in 2021 under Arizona Revised Statutes Title 5, Chapter 11. The Department of Gaming may issue no more than ten event…

Arizona has no DUI checkpoint statute at all. The words "checkpoint" and "roadblock" appear nowhere in the Arizona Revised Statutes, so nothing in state law authorizes sobriety…

Arizona's only statute aimed at filming police, A.R.S. § 13-3732, has never taken effect. It would have made it a class 3 misdemeanor to keep video recording law enforcement activity…

Arizona does have a stop-and-identify statute, but it is a narrow one. A.R.S. § 13-2412 compels you to state your true full name only after a peace officer has lawfully detained you on…

Arizona is one of the few states whose legalisation act says in terms that lawful adult conduct "may not constitute the basis for detention, search or arrest." A.R.S. § 36-2852(A)…

Arizona prohibits cities, towns, and counties from regulating or banning auxiliary containers like plastic bags, cups, and bottles under ARS 9-500.38.

Arizona preempts local bans and fees on polystyrene foam food containers as auxiliary containers under ARS 9-500.38 and ARS 11-269.16.

Arizona bans the sale or furnishing of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21 under A.R.S. 13-3622. The state raised its own minimum age from 18 to 21 in…

Arizona allows a vehicle four kinds of extra forward lighting and puts a mounting-height band on each: one spot lamp, two fog lamps mounted 12 to 30 inches off the ground, two…

Arizona is one of the few states whose code names dash cam recording and permits it in so many words. A.R.S. section 28-963(A)(3) forbids recording or broadcasting video on a device…

Arizona still prohibits lane splitting as most riders picture it, but A.R.S. § 28-903(F) opens a narrow lane-filtering exception. A two-wheeled motorcycle may move between lanes to…

Arizona bans any plate cover, spray, electronic device or electrochromatic film that obscures the numbers, characters, year tabs or issuing state name "from any angle", under A.R.S. §…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle anywhere in Arizona. The state's vehicle equipment article, A.R.S. sections 28-921 through 28-966, names no radar detector, laser jammer…

Arizona lets you run metal studded tires anywhere in the state from October 1 to May 1, and bans them for the other five months. A.R.S. § 28-958(B)(3) also caps the hardware itself…

Arizona lets the front side windows carry film with a light transmission of thirty-three percent plus or minus three percent, so a front window measuring down to 30 percent still…