Kootenai County does not set a general vacant-lot maintenance ordinance, but Idaho law makes the landowner responsible for controlling noxious weeds on their property, occupied or vacant. Outdoor-storage and dumping rules also apply to vacant parcels.
There is no county-wide 'tall grass on vacant lots' standard for the unincorporated county; the enforceable obligations come from two directions. First, Idaho Code 22-2407 makes every landowner responsible for controlling noxious weeds on their land, which the county's Noxious Weed Control Office inspects and enforces. Second, the Land Use and Development Code's outdoor-storage rule (8.4.1402) and the Solid Waste Ordinance's ban on unauthorized deposits (4-3-15) apply to vacant parcels, so junk and dumped waste on an empty lot can be abated. Inside city limits, the city sets its own weed and lot-maintenance rules.
Idaho's noxious weed law obligates the landowner to control weeds at their own cost; the county can inspect and require control. Dumping or junk on a vacant lot is enforced under the solid waste and land use codes.
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