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

Yuba County regulates property blight through its Property Maintenance Ordinance, Title VII, Chapter 7.36 of the Yuba County Ordinance Code. Section 7.36.310 (Conditions creating a public nuisance) identifies the keeping, storing, or accumulation of junk, trash, debris, scrap metal, refuse, paper, demolition and construction wastes, rubbish, packing materials, and abandoned objects such as furniture, stoves, appliances, and other discarded items as conditions that constitute a public nuisance. The County's Code Enforcement division (within the Community Development and Services Agency) describes its visual-blight focus as the accumulation of junk and trash, graffiti, and dismantled vehicles. Every owner of real property within the unincorporated area of Yuba County has a duty to prevent a public nuisance from arising on or existing upon the property, regardless of whether the owner is in actual possession. Enforcement uses an administrative process: a Notice and Order to Abate (Sec. 7.36.625) gives the owner the right to request a hearing within 10 calendar days; if the nuisance is not abated, administrative penalties under Article 4 (Sec. 7.36.420) accrue and abatement costs become a lien specially assessed on the property tax bill. These rules apply only to unincorporated areas, not the incorporated cities of Marysville and Wheatland.