Scottsdale, AZ

Scottsdale bans burning refuse anywhere in the city except in incinerators permitted by the county and the city, and any such burning must still comply with Arizona Department of…

Scottsdale's amended Residential Code sets hard setbacks for backyard fire pits: outdoor fireplaces, woodstoves, and wood-burning fire pits must sit at least 8 feet from a shared side…

Scottsdale's Fire Code designates 'hazardous fire areas' under Appendix O, where the fire code official can close land to entry, post warning signs, and require permits before anyone…

Scottsdale's Fire Code requires a construction permit before storing or using LP-gas, operating LP-gas cargo tankers, or removing underground LP-gas containers. Small propane tanks of…

Scottsdale adopted Ordinance 4157 regulating fireworks use in compliance with state law. Permissible consumer fireworks (ground-based only) are legal only during state-designated…

In Scottsdale's hazardous fire areas, anyone owning, leasing, or controlling a building or adjacent land must keep a 30-foot firebreak clear of flammable vegetation around it at all…

Scottsdale caps every licensed vacation rental and short-term rental at a single family of one to six adults, plus their related dependent children, using the definition written into…

Scottsdale escalates civil fines every time the same vacation rental racks up another 'verified violation' within a rolling 12 months: up to $500 for the first, up to $1,000 for the…

Scottsdale does not impose any annual night cap on short-term or vacation rentals. Arizona SB 1350 (2016) and HB 2672 (2019) preempt cities and counties from prohibiting STRs or…

Scottsdale Ordinance 4566 (Article IX, Chapter 18 - SRC 18-175) requires every short-term/vacation rental property to obtain an annual city license at $250 per property, plus an…

Scottsdale treats a loud short-term rental party as a civil offense with escalating fines: Sec. 18-124 makes it unlawful for any responsible person, including a guest, host or renter…

Scottsdale's STR ordinance (Ordinance 4566) requires operators to address parking impacts. Guests must use the property's driveway and garage: street parking spillover into…

Scottsdale requires all licensed STR properties to maintain liability insurance coverage of at least $500,000. This coverage may be obtained through a direct policy or through an…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, an accessory dwelling unit used with a short-term rental means the property owner must live on-site, unless the ADU's certificate of occupancy…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, an owner renting out a short-term rental with an accessory dwelling unit must live on the property, unless the ADU's certificate of occupancy…

Arizona requires short-term rental operators to license with the Department of Revenue and remit transaction privilege tax plus any applicable county and city transient lodging taxes…

Scottsdale bars operating a mobile sound amplification system, essentially any vehicle-mounted radio, stereo or speaker rig, between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if it can be heard 50 feet…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-63 bans using a compression release engine brake, sometimes called a 'jake brake,' anywhere the City has posted a sign prohibiting it, specifically to cut…

Scottsdale bans mobile sound amplification between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. under Code of Ordinances Sec. 19-20, covering vehicle stereos, radios and PA systems that carry 50 feet or…

Scottsdale's leaf blower rule is narrow but absolute: Sec. 18-9.1 makes it unlawful for anyone to use a leaf blower to blow landscape waste into the public roadway. The code defines…

Scottsdale's Code of Ordinances § 5-358 forces new noise-sensitive development inside the Airport Influence Area's AC-2 and AC-3 zones to be built with noise attenuation measures…

Scottsdale restricts construction work to set daily windows under City Code § 31-12: 6 a.m.-7 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays in summer, tighter hours in winter, and no…

Scottsdale's Code of Ordinances § 4-17(c) makes it unlawful to knowingly keep or harbor any animal or fowl whose frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking or crowing annoys or…

Scottsdale Sec. 19-26 bars any business that serves alcohol or provides live entertainment from creating unreasonable noise that disturbs a nearby residential district, and Sec. 19-25…

Scottsdale bans abandoning a vehicle on any street, highway, road or public property, and treats a vehicle left unmoved for 72 hours in the right-of-way as prima facie abandoned…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-106(1) bars stopping, standing, or parking wherever the curb is painted red or an official sign prohibits it. It is the first item on a citywide list of…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-119 lets the city post passenger and freight curb loading zones with signed hours, and limits passenger zone stops to three minutes and freight zone use to…

Scottsdale's Green Construction Code requires new hotels, apartments, condos and most commercial buildings to dedicate a share of parking to electric vehicle charging. Section…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-117 lets the city designate permit parking zones with signs or markings, and bars anyone from parking there without a permit issued by the city manager or a…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-129 bars storing any vehicle, trailer, or watercraft on a street, highway or other public property for more than 72 consecutive hours, and lets police tag…

Scottsdale's zoning ordinance, Section 7.200(I), caps parking and driveway area in a single-family front yard at the lesser of 35% of the yard or 30 linear feet of lot frontage, and…

Scottsdale regulates street parking under Revised Code Chapter 17, Article V (Stopping, Standing and Parking). Time-limited parking zones are posted and enforced. No parking is…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-113 bars parking or storing a commercially registered vehicle with a chassis rated over one ton, or any vehicle longer than 22 feet, on residential streets…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, home driveways and parking areas must be paved, decomposed granite, or ABC material to control dust: bare dirt parking doesn't meet the zoning…

Arizona sets no statewide cap on what a private towing company can charge to remove a vehicle from private property: A.R.S. § 9-499.05(A) only lets an incorporated city or town…

Scottsdale outlaws barbed wire, razor wire, razor ribbon, concertina wire and electrified fencing on residential land citywide under Sec. 18-14(a). The only exception is livestock…

Scottsdale only exempts fences from a building permit if they stand 3 feet or less. Under City Code § 31-5, amending IBC Section 105.2, any fence taller than 3 feet (0.9144m) falls…

Scottsdale exempts retaining walls from a building permit only if they are 3 feet or less and do not redirect stormwater, support a surcharge, or hold Class I, II or IIIA liquids. City…

In Scottsdale's R1-190 single-family district, walls, fences and hedges can rise 8 feet by right along the property line or in the side and rear yards, up to 12 feet if set back 60…

Arizona is an open-range state. Under A.R.S. 3-1427, a landowner cannot recover for damage caused by a neighbor's trespassing livestock unless the property is enclosed within a 'lawful…

Scottsdale folds rainwater harvesting into its stormwater and floodplain rules rather than regulating it separately. Development must generally provide stormwater storage sized for a…

Scottsdale makes the owner of property next to a street responsible for mowing and trimming the plants and trees on the adjacent right-of-way, and separately bars any tree, hedge or…

Scottsdale's code allows composting as one lawful way to dispose of animal waste from pens, stables, yards and cages, as long as it happens often enough to prevent a nuisance or health…

Scottsdale's property maintenance code caps grass at six inches under Sec. 18-9(a)(4), banning poison oak, poison ivy and weeds along with any dead, dry or overgrown plant growth on…

Scottsdale caps how much of a lot can be planted in water-intensive landscape or turf. For a new single-family home permitted on or after August 15, 2023, Sec. 49-248 confines that…

Scottsdale's Native Plant Ordinance (Chapter 46, Article V) protects indigenous desert plants citywide. Removal or relocation of protected native plants requires a Native Plant program…

Scottsdale's Native Plant Ordinance (Chapter 46, Article V) is one of the most comprehensive in Arizona, protecting dozens of indigenous desert plant species. The Zoning Ordinance…

Scottsdale bars selling an ADU separately from the main house and requires a recorded deed restriction before a Restricted-Affordable Detached ADU can be occupied. That unit type can…

Scottsdale allows up to two Accessory Dwelling Units on lots under an acre and three, including one Restricted-Affordable unit, on acre-plus lots. Sizes top out at 1,000 square feet or…

Converting an existing garage or other building into a Scottsdale Accessory Dwelling Unit requires meeting the full ADU chapter, including sleeping, kitchen, and sanitary facilities…

Scottsdale limits backyard sheds and other accessory buildings to residential lots where the main house is already under construction, capping their footprint at 30 percent of the rear…

Maricopa County does not require an owner to live on the property when adding an accessory dwelling unit. ADUs may be rented long-term independently, with no familial or employment tie…

Under ARS 9-461.18, every Arizona municipality with more than 75,000 residents must permit at least one attached and one detached accessory dwelling unit on any lot zoned for a…

Scottsdale's Planned Regional Center (PRC) zoning district allows veterinary and pet care service as a permitted use, but Code Sec. 5.2605 requires the indoor operation to sit inside a…

Scottsdale addresses animal hoarding through Scottsdale Revised Code Chapter 4 keeping limits and Maricopa County Animal Care & Control field investigations; criminal cruelty is…

Scottsdale does not ban dogs by breed. Instead, § 4-31 of the Code of Ordinances defines a vicious animal as any carnivore that has a propensity to bite human beings without…

Scottsdale's Code of Ordinances § 4-39 bans letting any dog run at large: each dog must stay confined to the owner's property or be on a leash no longer than six feet and under the…

Scottsdale's Code of Ordinances § 4-17 lets residents keep cattle, horses, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, birds and fowl, but every pen, stall, cage or yard must stay free of flies…

Maricopa County's animal control ordinance requires dog licenses and bans dogs from running at large, but sets no license, leash, or at-large rule for cats in the unincorporated county.

Maricopa County does not require pet owners in unincorporated areas to spay or neuter their dogs. Instead, the county's Rabies/Animal Control Ordinance lets the Board of Supervisors…

Pet groomers and pet shops in unincorporated Maricopa County are Non-Food Environmental Health Operating Permit holders under Chapter I of the county's Environmental Health Code. A…

Keeping wild or exotic animals privately in unincorporated Maricopa County is zoned as commercial "Outdoor Entertainment," a use the county's zoning table permits only in commercial…

Arizona requires every beekeeper to register apiaries with the State Department of Agriculture, regardless of city rules, and follows uniform statewide pest and disease management…

Arizona makes it unlawful to intentionally feed or attract wildlife, except birds and tree squirrels, in Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties under A.R.S. 13-2927. The offense is a petty…

Scottsdale's Zoning Ordinance lets a resident run a small in-home day care by right: a 'Day care home' watching no more than four unrelated people needs no conditional use permit and…

Scottsdale's Zoning Ordinance permits a 'home occupation' only when a family member runs it on the premises, it stays clearly incidental to living there, generates no commodity sales…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, a home occupation's sign is capped at four square feet and must otherwise meet the county's general sign standards under MCZO Article 1102.1.

Home-based businesses in unincorporated Maricopa County are capped at five customers, clients, or students on-site at any time, with none allowed between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Unincorporated Maricopa County lets food establishments serve or sell food made in a private home under Arizona's cottage food law, but only if the customer gets a copy of the required…

Arizona has no home restaurant permit. There is no microenterprise home kitchen operation licence, no meal count allowance, and nothing in A.R.S. § 36-136(I)(4) that exempts a home…

Above-ground pools in Scottsdale that can hold water over 18 inches deep are subject to Arizona's pool safety requirements (ARS §36-1681). A 5-foot barrier is required, and access…

Pool barriers in Scottsdale must comply with Arizona's Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (ARS §36-1681), which requires a minimum 5-foot barrier around all residential pools. Gates…

Scottsdale Zoning Ordinance § 6.1310 lets a property in the Planned Block Development (PBD) Overlay District request bonus density, building height and gross floor area ratio above the…

Scottsdale's Downtown (D) zoning district, applied only within the Old Town Area under Sec. 5.3002, implements the Old Town Plan and the Old Town Scottsdale Urban Design &…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, no parcel inside a Planned Area Development (PAD) overlay can be built on until the county approves a Specific Development Plan for it. The plan must…

Scottsdale Tax Code § 400 imposes a privilege tax measured by gross income on every business activity classified under Article IV, from retail and restaurants to construction…

Scottsdale caps non-consent towing at $125, including the first 72 hours of storage, and requires posted signs, police notification before a tow, and 24/7 vehicle release. Towing…

Scottsdale requires a sexually oriented business license before conducting an adult service, adult video, or cabaret operation, plus separate manager and adult service provider…

Scottsdale bars anyone from operating as a junk dealer or secondhand dealer without first obtaining a city license under § 16-331, on top of any other required city, county, state or…

Scottsdale requires pawnbrokers to hold a city license under § 16-331 and imposes a pawn-specific 20-day holding period on pledged goods, longer than the 10 days required of other…

Scottsdale requires anyone operating a massage facility to hold a city license issued by the director of licensing and revenue. Applicants and controlling persons must be…

Scottsdale flatly bars using a home carport or garage for any home occupation, which rules out running a paid auto-repair business from a residential garage. The same zoning definition…

Scottsdale's commercial roll-off program bills a flat $651.05 fee covering three tons per pull on 20, 30 or 40 cubic-yard containers, with $49.23 per extra ton and a $57.20 compactor…

Scottsdale requires residential refuse and recycling carts at the curbline only within a tight window: never before 6:00 p.m. the evening before pickup, and pulled back off the curb…

Scottsdale residents with 90-gallon containers must place them at the curb on scheduled collection days under Sec. 24-17, not before 6:00 p.m. the night before, and remove them the…

Scottsdale residents with ninety-gallon carts must hold containers off the curb until 6:00 p.m. the evening before pickup and pull them back in the same day they're emptied. Citywide…

Scottsdale's curbside recycling program bans seven categories of material from the blue cart, from animal and human waste to construction debris and general refuse. Repeat…

Scottsdale requires yard trimmings to go out as containable rubbish, in closed boxes, or bagged, with tree branches and trunks cut to six-foot maximum lengths and no bag or box over…

Scottsdale bans dumping outright: Sec. 18-6 makes it unlawful for anyone to throw, deposit or dump litter or debris on any land, public or private, and allows storage only in a lidded…

Scottsdale caps bulk rubbish piles at 10 feet long, 6 feet wide and 4 feet high, set out no earlier than three days before and no later than 5:00 a.m. on collection Monday. Business…

Arizona forbids selling plastic bottles and rigid containers unless they carry a molded resin identification code, the familiar number inside the chasing-arrows triangle. A.R.S. §…

Scottsdale enforces vector control, meaning rodents, flies and mosquitoes capable of spreading disease, in coordination with county and state rules, and requires every solid-waste user…

Scottsdale's neighborhood street vendor law, known locally as Leo's Law, requires anyone applying for a street vending license to already hold a Maricopa County Food Handlers Permit…

Maricopa County's Environmental Health Code bans harboring bed bugs on any premises and requires owners to eliminate an infestation once Environmental Services orders it, with permit…

Unincorporated Maricopa County has no separate curbside rule for used needles or sharps. Instead it regulates them as biohazardous medical waste under Chapter II, Section 10 of the…

Scottsdale requires anyone soliciting door to door or in public for a charitable purpose to get a permit from the Financial Services Department first. Applications go in at least ten…

Scottsdale adopted the 2021 International Green Construction Code by reference, applying sustainability, water, energy, and materials standards to commercial and multifamily…

Scottsdale's building official can order any inspection needed to verify code compliance beyond the standard required list, plus special inspections for complex electrical work like…

Scottsdale's zoning code ties a day care center's location to its distance from housing: under Table 11.201.A of § 11.201, a day care center with a drop-off or outdoor play area more…

Scottsdale enforces the 2020 edition of the National Electrical Code as part of its Building Code, adopted by reference under Section 31-70. Anyone installing, altering or repairing…

Scottsdale adopted the 2021 International Plumbing Code, renamed locally the 'Plumbing Code of the City of Scottsdale,' as part of its Building Code under Sections 31-80 and 31-81…

Scottsdale requires an automatic sprinkler system, installed to NFPA 13, 13-R, or 13-D, throughout every new Group R residential occupancy, regardless of square footage. A short list…

Scottsdale amends IBC Section 105 to run its own annual-permit and exemption system. City Code § 31-5 lets the building official issue annual permits for repeat minor work, sets a Dec…

Scottsdale's amended Fire Code requires at least one elevator in any building four or more stories above or below grade to be sized for fire department emergency access to every floor…

Scottsdale mobile food vendors must keep a four-foot sidewalk clearance in every direction at their vending spot, stay in a legal parking space at least 50 feet from any intersection…

Scottsdale confines mobile food vending to zoning districts that allow the use. Code Section 16-655(I) bars operating in, or within 250 feet of, residentially zoned land unless the…

Scottsdale requires every mobile food vendor to hold a City license under Section 16-653, separate from the state health permit. The license runs one year, is nontransferable, and…

Scottsdale bans riding a human-powered skateboard anywhere the City has posted signs prohibiting it (Section 17-86). Motorized skateboards face a far tighter rulebook under Section…

Scottsdale prohibits smoking or consuming marijuana anywhere in public. City Code § 25-3 makes it a class one misdemeanor to use marijuana on any city, state or school-district…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-5 bars pedestrians from crossing a roadway outside a marked crosswalk within the city's central traffic district or in any business district. Crossing…

Scottsdale makes it a class one misdemeanor to urinate or defecate anywhere exposed to public view, unless it's in a toilet or other suitable facility. Conviction carries a mandatory…

Scottsdale fines any responsible person who permits a nuisance party or unlawful gathering starting at $250 for a first offense, rising to $2,000 for a fourth. Property owners who…

Since July 2025, Scottsdale bars smoking on or within 50 feet of any playground on city property, covering lit tobacco products and, where the law allows, e-cigarettes. It's a petty…

Scottsdale bans drinking or possessing spirituous liquor in an open container anywhere in a city park under Code Sec. 20-31(b)(3). Beer and wine in open non-glass containers are…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-76 splits e-bikes into Class 1 (pedal-assist, cuts off at 20 mph), Class 2 (throttle-assist, cuts off at 20 mph), and Class 3 (pedal-assist, cuts off at 28…

Scottsdale Code Section 17-106(19) bars any motor vehicle from stopping, standing, or parking within a designated bicycle or turn lane, one item on a longer list of places where…

Arizona runs two separate low-speed classes and gives neither one a local street-designation scheme. A neighborhood electric vehicle, the state's version of a federal low-speed…

Scottsdale account holders own every leak past their meter and must report unexplained usage to the Utility Billing Department within six months to qualify for a reduced-rate credit…

Scottsdale pays property owners to remove lawn: the Water Conservation Office's Turf to Xeriscape rebate covers $2 per square foot of turf removed and replaced with low-water-use…

Maricopa County requires reclaimed wastewater lines to be built and separated from drinking water and sewer lines to strict engineering standards before Environmental Services will…

Scottsdale requires a permit for private improvements in the right-of-way (PIR) before anyone builds or installs anything private in a public street, sidewalk or easement area. The…

Scottsdale places the sidewalk squarely on the adjacent property owner's maintenance list. Sec. 47-47(f) names the sidewalk, the adjoining right-of-way strip, the adjacent alley, and…

Scottsdale bars placing or maintaining anything in the public right-of-way, which by code includes the sidewalk, without written city authorization. Only a short list of low-profile…

Scottsdale code inspectors can designate rental housing as slum property under Sec. 18-100 after an inspection finds structurally unsound conditions, missing sanitation, or hazardous…

Scottsdale requires owners of vacant lots used for off-road driving or parking to stop it: Sec. 18-9.2 makes the owner responsible for taking measures, such as a fence, ditch and berm…

Scottsdale makes it a class 3 misdemeanor under Sec. 19-21 to camp in any public park, on public streets or in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve without a city permit, defining camping…

Reserving a Scottsdale park facility for a gathering requires a permit under Sec. 20-33, which must state the facility, any maximum capacity, and required insurance and indemnification…

A block party or other event closing a Scottsdale street needs a standard special-event permit under Sec. 22-5 whenever it impedes or disrupts normal street use. Sec. 22-8 requires a…

Scottsdale regulates recurring outdoor vendor fairs as "farmers markets" under Sec. 22-3, capping any single location at once per week and 52 events a year under Sec. 22-7(c)…

Scottsdale Code Article VI requires a parade permit before anyone may organize or hold a parade, march or procession on a city street or public place, with applications due 30 to 90…

Scottsdale caps how much of a residential rear yard accessory buildings and structures can cover. Under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 7.200, sheds, casitas, garages and similar accessory…

In Scottsdale's largest-lot single-family district, R1-190, the Zoning Ordinance sets a 60-foot front yard, a 30-foot side yard on each side, and a 60-foot rear yard, with corner lots…

Scottsdale caps single-family building height at thirty (30) feet in the R1-43, R1-35, and R1-18 districts under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 5.104.D, 5.204.D, and 5.304.D. Within the…

Scottsdale's Stormwater Regulation article applies citywide, not just inside mapped floodplains, and requires post-development runoff to leave a site the way it did before development…

Scottsdale adopts FEMA's flood insurance study and rate maps by reference to draw its Special Flood Hazard Areas, with the City Council sitting as the Floodplain Board over them…

In Scottsdale's Natural Area Open Space (NAOS), Sec. 6.1100.B.6 allows homeowners in Wildland/Urban Interface and Intermix areas to clear flash fuels, including invasive annual…

Scottsdale requires one extra foot of freeboard above the FEMA base flood elevation for new and substantially improved homes in mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas. The city calls this…

In Scottsdale's Environmentally Sensitive Lands (ESL) Hillside Landform, Zoning Ordinance Sec. 6.1070.C requires all storm runoff to be directed toward natural channels using best…

Diesel trucks over 14,000 pounds are barred from idling more than five consecutive minutes anywhere in Maricopa County, with $100 first-offense and $300 repeat civil penalties under…

Scottsdale requires outdoor wood-burning fireplaces, woodstoves, fire pits and similar smoker-style devices to sit at least 8 feet from a neighboring property line, or 10 feet in a…

Scottsdale bans charcoal burners, chimineas, barbecues and other open-flame cooking devices from combustible balconies and from within 10 feet of combustible construction. One- and…

Scottsdale requires a permit for outdoor fireplaces, fire pits and gas or solid-fuel cooking devices under City Code § 31-26, and sets an 8-foot setback from neighboring property lines…

Scottsdale doubles the height and area allowed for on-premise commercial post-and-panel signs sitting behind a dedicated scenic corridor easement or against the Loop 101 Pima Freeway…

Scottsdale caps window signs at one per use and nine square feet per window panel, and any sign placed within three feet of the glass counts as a window sign. Internal illumination is…

Arizona law (HB 2500) restricts municipalities from enforcing local temporary sign laws against political signs during election season. Political signs in residential areas may be up…

Unincorporated Maricopa County allows digital billboards only in C-2/C-3 zoning under MCZO Article 1103.3.1, with a mandatory 11 p.m.-to-sunrise lights-out curfew, 300-nit evening…

Scottsdale taxes hotel and lodging revenue at 1.70% of gross income under City Code § 444, plus an additional 5% transient lodging tax under § 447, for a combined 6.70% local rate. The…

Scottsdale's Natural Area Open Space (NAOS) is otherwise kept in permanent natural condition, but Sec. 6.1100.B.5 permits removal of man-made dumping piles and specified invasive…

Scottsdale city parks, including their parking areas, are open only from sunrise until 10:30 p.m. under Sec. 20-35, unless a city permit or the general manager authorizes different…

Scottsdale bars minors under sixteen from public places away from home between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., and bars sixteen and seventeen year olds between midnight and 5:00 a.m. Parents…

Scottsdale Code § 19-26 makes it a civil offense for any business serving alcohol or hosting live entertainment to create unreasonable noise that disturbs a residential district…

Maricopa County's noise ordinance bans generator noise reaching neighboring homes: if generator sound is audible from inside a closed residential structure within 500 feet of your…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, noise from heating and cooling equipment and pool pumps is exempt from the county noise ordinance if it operates per manufacturer specs and can't be…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, amplified music and bass-heavy stereo or speaker noise is illegal once it can be heard inside a closed residential structure within 500 feet of the…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, a car alarm or other warning device is exempt from Ordinance P-23's noise ban only if it doesn't sound continuously for more than thirty minutes per…

Scottsdale's building code requires every habitable room, bathroom and toilet room to have heating capable of holding at least 68°F. City Code § 31-23 sets that floor as the City's…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1368, Arizona landlords must give a 5-day written notice for nonpayment of rent and a 10-day notice to cure for other material lease violations before filing…

The Arizona Residential Landlord-Tenant Act preempts the field of residential eviction grounds and procedures, preventing cities from imposing just-cause eviction requirements beyond…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1343, an Arizona landlord must give at least two days' notice of intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times for legitimate purposes such as inspections…

A.R.S. § 33-1375 requires 30 days' written notice to end a month-to-month tenancy (10 days week-to-week). Breaking a fixed-term lease early can incur damages, though landlords must…

Arizona prohibits local rent control. State law makes rent regulation on private residential property a matter of statewide concern and preempts the field, so cities, charter cities…

Arizona has no statutory cap on how much a landlord may raise rent and no dedicated rent-increase notice statute. For a month-to-month tenancy, a rent change is implemented by serving…

Arizona caps security deposits at one and one-half month's rent. After the tenancy ends and the tenant requests it, a landlord has 14 days (excluding weekends and legal holidays) to…

Arizona's adverse possession periods are tiered: 2 years by right of possession alone (A.R.S. § 12-522), 3 years under color of title (§ 12-523), 5 years under a recorded deed with…

Scottsdale designates its most significant historic resources as a Landmark under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 6.118.I, a status that can attach to a property already inside a Historic…

Scottsdale has opted out of allowing recreational marijuana businesses. City Code § 25-4 prohibits the operation of any marijuana establishment in the City, with one narrow exception…

Arizona's Smart and Safe Arizona Act (Proposition 207, 2020) permits adults 21+ to cultivate up to 6 marijuana plants per person (maximum 12 per household with 2+ adults) for personal…

Medical marijuana dispensaries and marijuana establishments in unincorporated Maricopa County must sit at least 1,500 feet from any church, school, day care, park, playground, or…

Scottsdale cannot enforce a plastic bag ban or fee. A.R.S. § 9-500.38 declares regulation of auxiliary containers a matter of statewide concern, preempting all Arizona cities and…

Arizona preempts local bans and fees on polystyrene foam food containers as auxiliary containers under ARS 9-500.38 and ARS 11-269.16.

Scottsdale requires every public and private street contiguous to a development to be landscaped under an approved landscape plan, with street-side plantings following Arizona…

Scottsdale requires a city permit before any motion picture or television production uses a public street, alley, right-of-way, facility or place, reviewed by fire, police, risk…

Scottsdale measures light trespass at the property line, six feet above grade, with the meter facing the lit property. Non-residential or multi-family light spilling onto single-family…

Scottsdale's Zoning Ordinance requires shields, downward-directed sources, and full cutoff fixtures once a luminaire exceeds 3,050 total initial lumens. Detached single-family homes…

Unincorporated Maricopa County limits offsite sign (billboard) lighting to four fully shielded luminaires per sign face at no more than 40,000 lumens each, lit top-down to stop glare…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, garage and yard sales at a dwelling are capped at six individual days per year under the county zoning code's definition of garage/yard sales.

Cryptocurrency mining rigs and server farms fall under Maricopa County's 'Data Center' zoning definition, restricting them to industrial-zoned parcels in unincorporated county land…

Maricopa County has no decibel limit; Noise Ordinance P-23 uses an audibility standard. Data center cooling and generators must not be heard inside closed homes within 500 feet of the…

Unincorporated Maricopa County's Rural zoning districts exist specifically to conserve farmland and prevent conflicts between agricultural and urban uses, with farms permitted by right.

Arizona's Right to Farm Act in ARS 3-112 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance suits when surrounding land use changes.

Unincorporated Maricopa County treats a commercial drone or autonomous-vehicle fleet operation as an industrial land use, not a home or retail one. The Zoning Ordinance's use table…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, solar panels are allowed as a by-right accessory use in every zoning district, no special use permit required, subject to development standards on…

Arizona law bars homeowners associations from banning solar energy devices outright. A.R.S. § 33-1816 lets an association adopt only reasonable placement rules, and only if those rules…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, anyone can report rubbish, weeds, filth, debris, or a dilapidated building on a property to the Planning and Development abatement officer, who must…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, building or using land without a permit or against zoning rules is a class 2 misdemeanor and a declared public nuisance, with each day of continued…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, the Abatement Officer must inspect a property after any weeds, rubbish, or dilapidated-building complaint, then give the owner at least 30 days to…

Arizona preempts most local paid leave mandates, while requiring statewide earned paid sick time under Proposition 206 and ARS 23-371.

Arizona allows permitless concealed carry for adults 21 and older, while still issuing optional CCW permits that enable reciprocity with other states.

Arizona broadly preempts cities, towns, and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, and related accessories beyond state law.

Arizona permits open carry of firearms by adults 18 and older without a license in most public spaces, subject to limited location restrictions.

Arizona lets a nonprofit with federal 501(c) tax-exempt status run a raffle without a gambling license under A.R.S. Section 13-3302(B), so long as it has operated in-state for a full…

Arizona law defines "social gambling" in ARS § 13-3301(9) and excludes it from criminal liability under § 13-3302(A)(2). A private game qualifies only if no player collects more than…

Arizona legalized event wagering, commonly called sports betting, in 2021 under Arizona Revised Statutes Title 5, Chapter 11. The Department of Gaming may issue no more than ten event…

Under A.R.S. § 33-1807, unpaid assessments in an Arizona planned community become an automatic lien on the lot, and the association may charge late fees and interest if the declaration…

Arizona heavily regulates HOA governance: A.R.S. § 33-1804 requires open board and member meetings (with limited executive sessions) and lets members record them, A.R.S. § 33-1812…

Arizona HOAs enforce CC&Rs, design rules, and bylaws, but A.R.S. § 33-1803 channels enforcement through a detailed violation-notice process. A member who gets a violation notice may…

Arizona does not give homeowners a general right to xeriscape, gravel, or desert landscaping over an HOA's objection; that stays governed entirely by each community's own declaration…

Arizona law bars homeowners associations from banning outdoor display of eight protected flags, including the American, Arizona state, POW/MIA, Gadsden and first responder flags. Under…

Arizona law caps how much a homeowners association can fine a member and forces the board to give notice and a hearing first. A.R.S. § 33-1803 limits late charges on an unpaid penalty…

Arizona bars an association from foreclosing an assessment lien until the owner passes a dollar figure or a time period, and the trigger is not the same in every community. In a…

Arizona homeowners associations cannot block a member's right to rent unless the declaration itself prohibits it or limits rental time periods. Once a unit is rented, A.R.S. §…

Arizona has no DUI checkpoint statute at all. The words "checkpoint" and "roadblock" appear nowhere in the Arizona Revised Statutes, so nothing in state law authorizes sobriety…

Arizona's only statute aimed at filming police, A.R.S. § 13-3732, has never taken effect. It would have made it a class 3 misdemeanor to keep video recording law enforcement activity…

Arizona does have a stop-and-identify statute, but it is a narrow one. A.R.S. § 13-2412 compels you to state your true full name only after a peace officer has lawfully detained you on…

Arizona is one of the few states whose legalisation act says in terms that lawful adult conduct "may not constitute the basis for detention, search or arrest." A.R.S. § 36-2852(A)…

Arizona bans the sale or furnishing of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21 under A.R.S. 13-3622. The state raised its own minimum age from 18 to 21 in…

Arizona allows a vehicle four kinds of extra forward lighting and puts a mounting-height band on each: one spot lamp, two fog lamps mounted 12 to 30 inches off the ground, two…

Arizona is one of the few states whose code names dash cam recording and permits it in so many words. A.R.S. section 28-963(A)(3) forbids recording or broadcasting video on a device…

Arizona still prohibits lane splitting as most riders picture it, but A.R.S. § 28-903(F) opens a narrow lane-filtering exception. A two-wheeled motorcycle may move between lanes to…

Arizona bans any plate cover, spray, electronic device or electrochromatic film that obscures the numbers, characters, year tabs or issuing state name "from any angle", under A.R.S. §…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle anywhere in Arizona. The state's vehicle equipment article, A.R.S. sections 28-921 through 28-966, names no radar detector, laser jammer…

Arizona lets you run metal studded tires anywhere in the state from October 1 to May 1, and bans them for the other five months. A.R.S. § 28-958(B)(3) also caps the hardware itself…

Arizona lets the front side windows carry film with a light transmission of thirty-three percent plus or minus three percent, so a front window measuring down to 30 percent still…