Hesperia, CA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)
Key Facts
- Nuisance trigger
- Harborage for disease-carrying animals
- Citation
- HMC § 8.32.030(F)
- Applies to
- All real property in city limits
- Enforcement
- City code enforcement / nuisance abatement
Summary
Hesperia declares breeding or harborage places for disease-carrying animals like rodents a public nuisance, and property owners must not create or allow such conditions on real property they own or occupy.
Health and safety concerns are declared a public nuisance and shall not be kept, stored, maintained or allowed by any person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge or possession of any real property... Breeding or harborage places for animals known to carry or transmit disease to humans (e.g., mosquito breeding in stored tires where rainwater can be trapped);
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 24 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
Hesperia's public nuisance chapter lists breeding or harborage places for animals known to carry or transmit disease to humans as a declared nuisance, citing mosquito breeding in stored tires as the code's own example. Rodent harborage falls within this same clause: food, shelter, or standing water that draws rats or mice onto a property is targeted alongside it. The rule applies to anyone who owns, leases, occupies, or has charge of real property in Hesperia, and it sits next to listed nuisances such as manure accumulation and unburied animal carcasses, all enforced through the city's public nuisance abatement process.
Violations & Fines
Declared a public nuisance subject to city abatement action; code violations are separately punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor under Title 1's general penalty schedule, with resulting fines.
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