Redlands, CA Public Health Rules: Bed-Bug Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Redlands Municipal Code § 8.04.070
- Trigger
- Director's abatement notice, not automatic disclosure
- Minimum abatement period
- 10 days after notice
- Maximum fine
- $1,000 per violation
- Enforcing agency
- Quality of Life Department
Summary
Redlands has no landlord-specific bedbug disclosure law. Instead, Municipal Code section 8.04.070 makes it unlawful to maintain any building, lot, vehicle or premises in a manner that permits bedbugs, along with other vermin, to breed or harbor, treating an infestation as a public nuisance subject to the city's standard abatement process.
INSECTS, VERMIN: It is declared to be a nuisance, and it shall be unlawful, to maintain any building, vacant lot, premises, vehicle, or place in such a manner as to permit the breeding or harboring therein or thereon of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, black widow spiders, lice, fleas or any other vermin.
Full Breakdown
Redlands does not have a chapter dedicated to bedbug disclosure or landlord remediation timelines. 04, Nuisances, which declares it unlawful to maintain any building, vacant lot, premises, vehicle, or place in a manner that permits the breeding or harboring of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, black widow spiders, lice, fleas or any other vermin. That declaration puts a bedbug infestation inside the same abatement machinery that covers every other nuisance in the chapter. 250, the fire chief, the quality of life department director, the health officer, or the city manager may enter a property with reasonable cause to investigate.
270 requires written notice to the property owner giving at least ten days to abate. 450. 510 caps fines at $1,000 or six months in jail. There is no separate obligation here requiring a landlord to notify tenants of a known infestation before it becomes a nuisance case; the duty attaches only once the city issues an abatement notice.
Violations & Fines
Once the director issues a notice to abate a bedbug or other vermin infestation, failing to comply is a misdemeanor under section 8.04.490. The chapter's general penalty in section 8.04.510 allows a fine up to $1,000, up to six months in county jail, or both, and the city can bill the owner for its abatement costs and attorney fees as a lien on the property.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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