Alpine County has no ordinance setting vacant-lot maintenance standards such as weed cutting or debris removal. The only codified controls reach junk vehicles (Code Ch. 8.04) and refuse dumped or buried on 'any lots, land' (Section 13.12.080). General vacant-lot nuisances fall under California state nuisance and fire-hazard law.
The Alpine County Code does not contain a vacant-lot or unimproved-property maintenance chapter, and the County does not impose a local weed-abatement program of the type larger California counties run. Two code provisions still apply to neglected parcels. First, Chapter 8.04 lets the County abate abandoned, wrecked or inoperative vehicles stored on private land, including vacant lots, as a public nuisance under California Vehicle Code Section 22660. Second, Solid Waste Collection Section 13.12.080(C) makes it unlawful for anyone to 'dump, place or bury on any lots, land, street or alley... any solid waste condemned by the health department,' and Section 13.12.080(B) bars owners from letting refuse accumulate and remain on lots. Section 13.12.080(D) prohibits burning refuse in any street, alley, park, waterway or public place. Beyond these, an overgrown or trash-strewn vacant lot is addressed through California's general nuisance statutes and, for fire fuels, state defensible-space law. Because Alpine is a high-elevation, wildfire-prone county, vegetation management on vacant land is driven mainly by California Public Resources Code Section 4291 defensible-space requirements rather than a County ordinance; Cal-Waste offers 'Handy Hauler' bins for yard-debris and defensible-space cleanup in the Bear Valley/Ebbetts Pass area.
Junk vehicles on vacant lots are abated under Chapter 8.04 with costs charged to the owner. Illegal dumping or burning of refuse on lots is a misdemeanor under Section 13.12.090 (up to $500 and/or six months in jail). Overgrowth and general neglect are pursued under state nuisance law and Public Resources Code Section 4291 defensible-space enforcement.
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