Island County, WA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

03A, Mobile Home Parks, within Title VIII, Health, Welfare and Sanitation. It is a short, standing duty: all mobile home parks shall be kept as free as possible of rodents and insects, and the operator must take whatever measures the health officer directs to keep the park in that condition. 090, which requires that storage, collection, and disposal of garbage in the park be managed so it does not create rodent harborage or insect-breeding areas, and requires garbage to be collected often enough that it does not overflow available containers.

030, which makes it unlawful to operate a park without a health officer permit and lets the health officer issue a provisional permit tied to a written compliance timetable when a park is out of compliance. Because rodent and insect control is one of the conditions of the operating permit, the health officer can use the annual permit renewal, which runs each calendar year and terminates every December 31, or a provisional permit, as the practical enforcement lever for a park that develops a rodent problem.

The rules and regulations date to the Board of Health's November 10, 1977 adoption and remain in force with a 1991 fee-schedule amendment under Resolution HD-17-91. The chapter does not extend this duty to single-family residential lots outside mobile home parks; it is scoped to the licensed park itself.