Yuba City, CA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Sec. 202 applies the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings and the California Health and Safety Code to decide whether a Yuba City building is dangerous, while the City's own procedures in Chapter 8 govern abatement, appeals, and cost recovery. Once a compliance order or administrative penalty deadline passes without the required work, and the Building Official finds the building immediately dangerous to the life, limb, property, or safety of the public or its occupants, or finds that abatement itself cannot be done safely, Sec.

412 requires the Building Official to order the building vacated. The notice must be posted at every exit, or on each unit if the building has multiple units, reading 'DANGEROUS BUILDING, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE TO OCCUPY,' naming the date to vacate by and the conditions requiring it, and it must be approved by the City Attorney before it is issued. No one may re-enter or remain in a posted building, except to carry out permitted abatement work, and no one may remove or deface the notice until the City has completed abatement and issued a certificate of occupancy; either act is a misdemeanor.

The Building Official can also order any hazardous utility disconnected, and if sewer service is cut, water service is disconnected with it to stop sewage from accumulating on the property; failing to disconnect utilities when ordered is a separate misdemeanor. The Building Official retains discretion to let people back into the building, or specific units, once the owner corrects the conditions that created the immediate danger.