Colorado Springs, CO Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

" The same section separately makes it unlawful for anyone to allow conditions that provide shelter or protection for rats, rodents or other vermin, or that favor their propagation, piles of rubbish, garbage, weeds or grass, junk, and unlicensed vehicles all have to come off the property, and garbage must go in solid, tight-lidded containers removed weekly. Responsibility for actually exterminating splits by building type: whenever an infestation traces back to the owner's failure to keep a dwelling in a rodent-resistant or reasonably insect-resistant condition, the owner must take corrective action, and in any dwelling with two or more units the owner is on the hook for pest extermination and for obtaining licensed extermination services if the Code Enforcement Officer requires it, including producing the exterminator's name, phone number or license copy on request.

In a single-family dwelling, that extermination duty shifts to the occupant. 404 by name as one of the Housing Code provisions the Code Enforcement Administrator is directed to enforce "to the fullest extent," alongside the related maintenance and workmanlike-repair sections, because City Council has classified pest and rodent conditions as a serious life-safety standard rather than a routine housekeeping complaint.