Redlands, CA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Redlands City Code § 6.24.060
- Trigger
- Knowledge of rodent presence
- Required methods
- Poisoning, trapping, or other means
- Related nuisance section
- § 8.04.070 Insects, Vermin
- Default penalty
- Infraction (§ 6.24.070)
Summary
Redlands requires anyone possessing a rodent-infested place to act immediately and in good faith to exterminate the rodents by poisoning, trapping, or other appropriate means once they learn of the infestation.
Every person possessing any place that is infested with rodents, as soon as their presence comes to his knowledge shall at once proceed and continue in good faith to endeavor to exterminate and destroy the rodents, by poisoning, trapping and other appropriate means.
Full Breakdown
020(B)(5)). 190 both let the city treat an unremedied infestation as a public nuisance subject to the abatement, notice, and hearing procedure in that chapter. 110.
Violations & Fines
Failing to actively exterminate a known rodent infestation is enforced as an infraction under the Chapter 6.24 penal provisions (§ 6.24.070) unless the condition is separately declared a public nuisance under § 8.04.070 or § 8.04.190, which can trigger the notice-to-abate and hearing procedure in Chapter 8.04.
Frequently Asked Questions
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