Sacramento, CA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

108, Article II of the Sacramento City Code (Property Maintenance) splits pest-control duties between occupants and owners. 040 lists what an occupant "shall not willfully" do, including subsection C's bar on allowing insects, rodents or other pests to infest the unit "when no other dwelling unit in the residential building is so infested and the owner has provided a reasonably insect-proof and rodent-proof building" -- meaning the duty only falls on the tenant once the landlord has done its part. Subsection F separately forbids placing or maintaining "furniture, equipment, material, debris or junk" in or around the premises to the point it harbors insects, rodents or pests and renders the unit or neighboring units unsafe or unsanitary.

Subsection D layers on a garbage-disposal duty, requiring use of an approved receptacle unless the tenant has agreed in writing to supply one. 050 makes clear the owner's own responsibility is never erased just because the occupant also has a duty, or because a lease shifts equipment-furnishing obligations onto the tenant. 060 to "the health department of the county of Sacramento," even though the duty itself is written into the city's own municipal code -- a cross-jurisdiction enforcement arrangement worth knowing before calling the wrong agency. This chapter traces back to the prior code (Sec. ) and remains in force under the current supplement.