Parker, CO Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

Section 6.01.220 of the Parker Municipal Code targets the conditions that draw rodents onto a property rather than the rodents themselves. Subsection (a) declares any animal or fowl enclosure, or any other place in Town where manure or liquid animal waste accumulates, a nuisance the moment it is kept in an unsanitary condition that lets an offensive odor escape or provides an insect or rodent attractant. Subsection (b) extends the same standard to manure or other organic material stored for use as fertilizer: it cannot be allowed to become offensive in odor, offensive to sight, or an attraction to insects or rodents.

Subsection (d) reaches further, making it unlawful and a nuisance for anyone to let a building or premises become offensive in odor or sight or create an unsanitary or hazardous health condition, which covers accumulated trash or pet waste that draws vermin even without livestock on site. Neighborhood Services enforces the Chapter under the general nuisance abatement procedure: it can summarily abate a rodent-attractant nuisance under Section 6.01.060, the property owner can protest an abatement notice to Municipal Court under Section 6.01.080, and the Town can recover its abatement costs plus a fifteen percent administrative fee under Section 6.01.090, including by filing a lien on the property.

Section 6.01.100 sets the penalty for any Chapter 6.01 violation, including a rodent-attractant nuisance, at a fine of not more than $499 for each separate offense, and treats every day the condition continues as a separate violation, so an uncorrected rodent attractant keeps accruing exposure until it is abated.