Alpine County, California's least-populous county and entirely unincorporated, has no general blight or property-maintenance ordinance. Its only codified blight provision targets junk vehicles: Alpine County Code Chapter 8.04 declares abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles on private property a public nuisance that promotes blight and may be abated.
Alpine County (county seat Markleeville) has not adopted a broad property-blight or property-maintenance code of the kind common in larger California jurisdictions. The County Code contains no general chapter on overgrown, deteriorated or unsightly property. The one codified blight tool is Chapter 8.04, Abandoned or Inoperative Vehicles. Section 8.04.080 finds, mirroring California Vehicle Code Section 22660, that 'the accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property not including highways' reduces property value, promotes 'blight and deterioration,' invites plundering, creates fire hazards and rodent harborage, and is therefore 'declared to constitute a public nuisance, which may be abated.' A vehicle completely enclosed within a building, or not visible from the street or other property, is exempt. Separately, Solid Waste Collection Section 13.12.080(B) bars owners and occupants in serviced areas from letting refuse 'collect and remain' on lots (construction sites excepted). Beyond these, blight-type complaints fall back on California's general nuisance statutes rather than a local ordinance. Property owners with concerns should contact the County's Community Development Department in Markleeville.
Junk-vehicle nuisances are abated under Chapter 8.04 after notice and a hearing before the abatement officer, with removal costs recoverable from the owner. Refuse left to accumulate on serviced premises is a misdemeanor under Section 13.12.090 (up to a $500 fine and/or six months in county jail). General blight without a vehicle or refuse element is handled under state nuisance law.
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