Yolo County, CA Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

Sec. 02 adopts the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code by reference, and Sec. 03 sets out the county's amendments to it. Item (7) rewrites Section 202-General Definitions to add a county-specific definition of 'public nuisance,' covering anything injurious to health or offensive to the senses, and specifically 'any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to children, whether in a building, on the premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot,' including abandoned wells or shafts. 4-Weeds of the IPMC to insert the county's own numeric threshold: 18 inches.

Enforcement runs through Sec. 1, which places authority with the Director of the Department of Community Services, and Sec. 01, and authorizes the code official to sue to restrain, correct or abate the violation and to record any resulting costs as a lien on the real estate. If a declared public nuisance, including an overgrown vacant lot, isn't abated within the time given, Sec. 4 lets the Chief Building Official ask the Board of Supervisors for authority to abate it with county personnel or a private contractor, and Sec.

6 lets the county collect the abatement cost as a special assessment on the property tax roll. An owner can appeal a weed or nuisance notice to the Planning Commission, sitting as the board of appeals under Sec. 113, by filing a written appeal within 30 days of the notice, with a further appeal to the Board of Supervisors within 15 days of the Commission's decision.