Yucaipa, CA Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Chapter 5.34 of the Yucaipa Municipal Code, adopted by the Yucaipa City Council in Ordinance 312 in 2011, treats renting property in the City of Yucaipa, California as a licensed business. Section 5.34.010 lists roominghouses, boardinghouses, apartment houses, mobile-home parks, trailer courts, private guest ranches, multiple-family rental accommodations for dwelling, and any other property rental business.

Section 5.34.020 adds a crime-free multiple-family rental-housing program for any property, excluding mobile home parks, with five or more rental units rented for residential dwelling purposes. Before the license issues, the owner or operator must complete a seminar provided by the Yucaipa police department and include a crime-free lease or rental agreement addendum in leases executed, modified or extended after December 14, 2011. The city clerk keeps a sample addendum. Existing license holders had to finish the seminar before their current license expired or as soon as it was conducted, whichever was later. A new owner or a new operator has three months after the transfer to complete it, and every owner or operator repeats the seminar once every three years, before the license expires at the end of the third year. The program coordinator sends the director of administrative services and the director of community development a list of those who finished, and the seminar samples are provided at no cost.

Section 5.34.030 declares a nuisance when an owner of a property with five or more rental units allows a tenant to permit listed offenses, or the commission of four or more city ordinance violations in a twelve month period. The license fee itself is not printed in this chapter; § 5.34.040 points to Section 5.04.030.