Truckee, CA

Truckee imposes a 10% Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), an additional 2% Measure K assessment, and a 1.25% Truckee Tourism Business Improvement District (TTBID) assessment on all stays…

Every Truckee short-term rental must provide on-site parking that matches the plan approved with its registration certificate, and boat trailers and recreational vehicles can never sit…

Truckee limits a licensed short-term rental to two guests per bedroom plus two more people, not counting children under thirteen. A hosted rental, where the owner or a qualifying…

Truckee holds short-term rental guests to the town's general noise standard in Chapter 9.20, but enforces it more strictly between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. The nighttime restriction…

Truckee Municipal Code Chapter 5.02 requires every short-term rental operator to obtain a Transient Occupancy Registration Certificate from the Town's STR Division before advertising…

California requires hosting platforms to warn hosts to check their lease and insurance before listing (Business and Professions Code 22592), and AB 537 requires short-term lodging…

Truckee marks loading zones with yellow curb paint and passenger loading zones with white curb paint under Section 10.13.100. Yellow zones allow only freight loading for up to 20…

Truckee bars any non-electric vehicle from parking in a stall designated for electric vehicle charging under Section 10.14.100. A gas-powered car left in a marked EV space, even…

Truckee confines vehicles over three tons gross weight to Council-designated truck routes under Section 10.15.020. Off-route parking by a heavy commercial vehicle is allowed only for…

During Truckee's snow season, generally November 1 through April 30, leaving any vehicle on a Town right-of-way in a way that could obstruct snow plowing is unlawful at any hour under…

From November 1 through April 30, Truckee's snow season rules restrict how vehicles can be left on Town streets: parking that obstructs snow removal, or narrows a plowed travel lane…

California Vehicle Code sections 22651 and 22669 set uniform rules allowing peace officers and authorized agents to remove abandoned vehicles from public and private property after…

California doesn't ban private-property towing, but Vehicle Code Section 22658 controls how it happens. A posted sign at least 17 by 22 inches must warn drivers before a tow company…

Truckee requires a working smoke alarm in every bedroom, every room with a bed, and at least one on each level of a short-term rental, including basements and habitable attics. Hosted…

Truckee designates its entire town as a Wildland Urban Interface area under Ordinance 2025-04, applying California Building and Residential Code wildfire-exposure construction…

Truckee requires written permission from the landowner before anyone lights a campfire on land they do not own, bans campfires that are unreasonably large or cannot be safely…

Truckee allows outdoor campfires and fire pits on private land only with the landowner's written permission, and Town Municipal Code Chapter 9.15 requires every fire to stay small…

California requires property owners in fire hazard zones to maintain 100 feet of defensible space around structures, applying uniformly across State and Local Responsibility Areas.

California uniformly prohibits possession, sale, and use of dangerous fireworks statewide, while permitting cities to further restrict or ban Safe and Sane fireworks locally.

California uniformly applies the State Fire Marshal's propane storage standards through the California Fire Code, which all local jurisdictions must enforce as a minimum.

Removing or trimming a tree standing in a Truckee street right-of-way requires an encroachment permit, and the Town only approves a removal permit when a genuine necessity for removal…

Since SB 676 took effect in 2024, Government Code 53087.7 protects only drought-tolerant living landscaping from local bans, so cities may again prohibit artificial turf. Civil Code…

SB 1383 requires every California resident and business to separate food scraps and yard waste from trash, with universal collection or on-site composting.

AB-1572 prohibits using potable water to irrigate non-functional turf at commercial, institutional, and HOA-common areas, accelerating native and low-water landscape conversions…

The 2012 Rainwater Capture Act allows California residents to capture rainwater from rooftops for non-potable outdoor use without a state water-right permit, preempting most local…

California's State Water Resources Control Board issues statewide drought emergency regulations and waste prohibitions that apply to every household, overriding more lenient local…

Keeping a wild, exotic or non-domestic animal in Truckee requires special written authorization from the Animal Control Officer under § 8.01.500. The code's own definition sweeps in…

Truckee does not require every dog or cat owner to sterilize a pet, but the Town's animal shelter cannot adopt one out unaltered. Town of Truckee Municipal Code § 8.01.140 bars…

Truckee Municipal Code § 8.01.420 makes it unlawful to let a dog or any other animal stray or run at large on a public street, sidewalk, park, school ground or other public place, or…

Truckee does not ban any dog breed by name. Instead, Town of Truckee Municipal Code § 8.01.490 imposes confinement, muzzle, and licensing requirements on any individual dog formally…

Chapter 8.02 of the Truckee Municipal Code bans pet stores from selling, displaying, adopting out, bartering, auctioning, or giving away cats or dogs in Town limits, unless the store…

Truckee doesn't cap pets outright, but keeping more than four dogs or cats over six months old turns a home into a 'Private Kennel' under Truckee Municipal Code § 8.01.020(n), which…

California law requires every beekeeper, apiary owner, broker, or person possessing an apiary in the state to register each colony's number and location by January 1 each year with the…

California Food and Agricultural Code section 16902 forbids any owner from willfully or negligently letting livestock stray onto, or stand unattended on, a public highway that is…

California law makes it illegal to knowingly feed big game mammals, deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, black bear, and Nelson bighorn sheep, anywhere in the state. The California…

Truckee's general noise ordinance makes any noise disturbance unlawful, and Section 9.20.020.A.6 singles out the hours between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.: noise that would be lawful…

Truckee Municipal Code § 8.01.460(a) makes it unlawful, and a nuisance, for an owner to let an animal disturb the peace and quiet of a neighborhood through barking, howling, or other…

Truckee bans any "noise disturbance," judged against eleven factors including loudness, zoning, proximity to homes and time of day. TMC 9.20.020 singles out the hours between 10:00…

California sets statewide airport noise limits under Title 21 CCR, with the state preempting most local aviation noise control because federal FAA authority dominates aircraft…

Government Code sections 66310 through 66342, the recodified ADU law formerly at 65852.2, establish statewide ministerial approval, size minimums, and parking caps for accessory…

California ADU law, Government Code 66310 et seq. (formerly 65852.2), expressly authorizes converting an existing garage into an ADU, with no replacement parking allowed and…

California Civil Code Section 841, the Good Neighbor Fence Act, presumes adjoining landowners share equal benefit and equal cost responsibility for boundary fences, applying statewide…

Government Code section 51035 forbids any California city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a cottage food operation in a residential dwelling. The local agency must pick…

Health and Safety Code sections 1597.40 through 1597.465 require all California cities and counties to treat licensed family daycare homes as permitted residential uses, preempting any…

California lets home cooks sell meals from their own kitchen under a microenterprise home kitchen operation (MEHKO) permit, capped at 30 meals a day, 90 a week, and $100,000 in annual…

While most home occupation rules are local, state law guarantees certain residential uses statewide, including accessory dwelling units under Government Code 66310 et seq., family…

California Health and Safety Code sections 115920-115929 (Swimming Pool Safety Act) impose statewide minimum fencing and drowning-prevention standards for new and remodeled residential…

Truckee's Stormwater Quality Ordinance requires year-round erosion control BMPs on every construction site and bars new ground disturbance outright during the wet season, October 15…

Truckee's Stormwater Quality Ordinance bans discharging anything other than stormwater into the Town's storm drain system or any watercourse unless a separate NPDES permit or listed…

The California Coastal Act, Public Resources Code sections 30000 through 30900, requires Coastal Development Permits for nearly all work in the coastal zone and gives the Coastal…

Government Code sections 65302 and 65962, together with Water Code section 8401 and the State Building Code Chapter 16, set uniform floodplain mapping, disclosure, and construction…

A sidewalk vendor selling food in Truckee must hold a Town permit before operating and must submit proof of a valid mobile food facility permit from Nevada County Environmental Health…

Truckee bans sidewalk vending within 100 feet of parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, intersections, bus stops and open-air dining, within 500 feet of certified farmers markets, and…

California's Safe Sidewalk Vending Act (SB 946) preempts most local bans on sidewalk vending, allowing only objective health, safety, and welfare regulations.

Truckee has adopted the 2025 California Building Code and Residential Code by reference for all construction, and a permit expires two years after issuance or automatically voids if…

Truckee has adopted the 2025 California Electrical Code, incorporating the 2020 National Electrical Code, by reference, and no utility may permanently connect power to a building…

Truckee adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code by reference and adds its own freeze-protection rules: water supply piping needs 36 inches of earth cover and the system must include a…

Every licensed short-term and hosted rental in Truckee must have working carbon monoxide alarms installed to current California Building Code standards and to the manufacturer's…

Truckee adopts the 1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings by reference, and any violation of Title 15's adopted codes is both an infraction punishable by fine and a…

Truckee's Building Official must maintain a published checklist for expedited review of small residential rooftop solar systems up to 10 kilowatts AC, requiring only one consolidated…

Truckee uses an automated SolarAPP+ portal to issue residential rooftop solar permits the same day. Systems must comply with the 2025 California Residential Code Sections R324 and…

California Civil Code section 714 makes any HOA covenant, deed restriction, or governing document provision that effectively prohibits or restricts a solar energy system void and…

Truckee bans skateboarding on any public or private parking facility open to the public once it carries a posted no-skateboarding sign, and the sidewalks next to that lot count as part…

Truckee bans drinking alcohol or carrying an open container on any public street, sidewalk, alley, or parking lot, plus any private lot open to the public, under Municipal Code Section…

Truckee's Social Host Liability ordinance makes anyone who hosts, permits, or controls a party where a person under 21 possesses or uses alcohol, marijuana, or a controlled substance…

Truckee's smoking ordinance, TMC Chapter 9.03, regulates only 'enclosed' places, defined as closed in by a roof and four walls. Section 9.03.160(e) expressly exempts 'any area exterior…

Truckee makes it an infraction to urinate or defecate anywhere on public or private property outside an actual sanitary facility. TMC 9.12.010 covers streets, parks, parking lots and…

Truckee lets a business or property owner bar a person from loitering on posted private premises simply by telling them to leave, and makes it unlawful for that person to return for…

Truckee defines an e-bike as a pedal bicycle with fully operable pedals and an electric assist motor capped at 750 watts, or 1 horsepower, that is unmodified. Every such device, along…

A low-speed vehicle in California may not be driven on any roadway with a speed limit above 35 miles per hour. Vehicle Code section 21260 permits it to cross a faster road only where…

Anyone responsible for property in Truckee must detect and correct water leaks within 72 hours of learning about them under the Town's Stormwater Quality Ordinance. It is one of five…

Anyone maintaining a pond of recycled water on Truckee property must manage it so that no discharge occurs in violation of any permit or state or local law. The duty comes from the…

Anyone who wants to excavate, build a driveway, install a sidewalk, place a sign, or plant or remove a tree in a Truckee street right-of-way needs an encroachment permit from the…

Truckee property owners and their tenants must keep the sidewalk bordering their property safe for pedestrians, including clearing dirt, sand, gravel, filth, rubbish, ice, and snow. An…

Truckee makes it unlawful to stand, sit or position your body on a public sidewalk, crosswalk, alley or highway in a way that hinders or blocks people or vehicles trying to pass. TMC…

Truckee taxes every stay under thirty days at twelve percent of the rent charged, a rate that runs from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2040 before reverting to ten percent. The…

Truckee requires a permit before anyone conducts a parade, festival, concert, block party or other special event on a Town street, sidewalk, trail or public right-of-way. The Municipal…

Truckee residents who sign up for yard-waste service must use a franchisee-provided 96-gallon cart under Truckee Municipal Code § 6.01.040(A)(3), and single-family customers subscribe…

Every commercial generator in Truckee must subscribe to franchisee recycling service and keep recyclables separated from the trash under Truckee Municipal Code § 6.01.060. Businesses…

Truckee requires households, multi-family buildings and businesses to keep food scraps and yard trimmings out of the garbage under Truckee Municipal Code § 6.01.070, the Town's local…

Every Truckee resident and business must subscribe to solid waste collection at least once a week from the Town's franchised hauler. Truckee Municipal Code § 6.01.050 sets…

Truckee caps residential garbage containers at 32 gallons and 60 pounds with a tight-fitting lid, and every container must stay wildlife-secure at all times. Carts can't go to the curb…

Dumping solid waste, litter or animal carcasses on any public or private property in Truckee, including streets, sidewalks, gutters and streambanks, is banned under Truckee Municipal…

A towing company must qualify for the Truckee Police Department's rotation list before it can perform any police-ordered tow in Town. TMC § 9.01.010 requires state towing licenses, CHP…

California requires statewide licensing of tobacco and vape retailers under the STAKE Act and the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act. Business and Professions Code 22970…

Truckee bans camping, sleeping and storing personal property on Town streets and public property whenever an available shelter bed exists, and separately bans storing construction…

Truckee prohibits storefront cannabis dispensaries. Only licensed cannabis delivery services are allowed under Development Code Section 18.58.075, which requires a Use Permit from the…

California Health & Safety Code Section 11362.2 allows adults 21+ to cultivate up to 6 plants per residence indoors. Truckee permits indoor personal cultivation only; outdoor personal…

California sets a statewide minimum wage floor under Labor Code 1182.12, $16.90 per hour for all employers as of January 2026. Local governments are not preempted and may set higher…

California's Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act under Labor Code 245-249 mandates paid sick leave for nearly all employees statewide. SB 616 (2023) raised the minimum to 40 hours…

California regulates concealed carry weapons licenses statewide under Penal Code 26150 through 26225. Senate Bill 2 (2023) imposes uniform sensitive-place restrictions and applicant…

California preempts most local firearm regulation under Government Code 53071 and Penal Code 25605, reserving licensing, registration, and manufacture authority to the state. However…

California broadly prohibits open carry of firearms statewide under Penal Code 25850 (loaded firearms in public) and Penal Code 26350 (open carry of unloaded handguns). The prohibition…

California prohibits carrying loaded firearms in vehicles statewide under Penal Code 25400 and 25850. Unloaded handguns transported in private vehicles must be in a locked container or…

California's Gambling Control Act bars any city or county from issuing a gambling license to a cardroom unless a local ordinance authorizes it first: one adopted by voters after…

California Penal Code § 326.5 lets only tax-exempt nonprofits, mobilehome park associations, senior groups, and school-affiliated charities run bingo, and only under a local city or…

California law exempts private home card games from gambling regulation entirely. Penal Code § 337j(e)(2)(D) excludes any card game played in a private home or residence from the…

California has no legal sports betting, in stores or online. Penal Code section 337a criminalizes bookmaking, pool-selling, and placing or accepting any bet on the result of a sporting…

California HOAs may levy regular and special assessments, charge late fees and interest, record liens, and ultimately foreclose on delinquent owners under the Davis-Stirling Act. State…

California's Davis-Stirling Act gives every HOA member the right to inspect and copy association records under Civil Code § 5205. Boards must produce current-year records within 10…

California overrides HOA governing documents on several owner protections. The Davis-Stirling Act and related Civil Code sections bar HOAs from prohibiting solar systems, U.S. flag…

California voids any HOA governing-document clause that effectively bans or unreasonably restricts a clothesline or drying rack in an owner's exclusive-use backyard. Civil Code Section…

Civil Code section 4735 voids any HOA rule that bans low-water plants, turf replacement, or artificial turf, and bars fines for cutting back watering during a declared drought…

Civil Code § 4745 voids any HOA covenant or governing-document rule that prohibits or unreasonably restricts installing an EV charging station in an owner's unit or designated parking…

Civil Code § 4705 bars every California homeowners association from limiting a member's display of the United States flag on their own lot or within their exclusive-use common area…

California law caps homeowners association fines at $100 per violation or the amount listed in the association's published penalty schedule, whichever is less. Civil Code section 5850…

A California homeowners association cannot foreclose on a member’s home over unpaid dues until the delinquent assessments alone reach $1,800, or until the assessments secured by the…

Civil Code § 4741 bars every California homeowners association from adopting or enforcing a rule that prohibits, or unreasonably restricts, renting out a separate interest, and sets a…

Sobriety checkpoints are lawful in California and stopping at one is a statutory obligation, not a courtesy. Vehicle Code § 2814.2(a) requires a driver to stop and submit to a sobriety…

California is one of the few states that answers this by statute rather than by case law alone. Penal Code § 148(g) says that photographing or making an audio or video recording of a…

California has no general stop-and-identify statute. The old Penal Code § 647(e), which required a person lawfully detained to give "credible and reliable" identification, was held…

California has no statute that requires you to consent to a search of your car, and none that requires an officer to warn you that you may refuse. What the Legislature and the voters…

California evictions run through the unlawful detainer process. Under Code of Civil Procedure § 1161, nonpayment requires a 3-day notice to pay rent or quit (excluding weekends and…

California landlords must keep rentals fit to live in. Civil Code §§ 1941 and 1941.1, reinforced by Green v. Superior Court, imply a warranty of habitability covering plumbing, heat…

Civil Code 1946.2 requires landlords statewide to have just cause to terminate tenancies of qualifying tenants who have lived in a covered unit at least 12 months.

California Civil Code § 1954 limits when a landlord may enter a rented home. Except in emergencies, abandonment, or with tenant consent, the landlord must give reasonable written…

California sets no fixed dollar or percentage cap on rent late fees, but a late fee in a residential lease is treated as liquidated damages. Under Civil Code § 1671, such a fee is…

To end a California month-to-month tenancy, a tenant gives 30 days' written notice. A landlord gives 30 days if the tenant has lived there under a year, or 60 days if a year or more…

California limits annual rent increases statewide to 5% plus the local change in the cost of living, capped at 10%, under the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB-1482). It also lets…

California requires written notice before raising a month-to-month tenant's rent. Under Civ. Code § 827, increases of 10% or less in 12 months need 30 days' notice; increases above 10%…

As of July 1, 2024, California landlords may collect no more than one month's rent as a security deposit, regardless of whether the unit is furnished. The deposit, minus any lawful…

California adverse possession requires five years of continuous, open, hostile possession AND payment of all property taxes during that period under Code of Civil Procedure § 325. A…

The California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act), Government Code 51200-51297.4, allows landowners to enter contracts with counties restricting land to agricultural use…

The California Right to Farm Act under Civil Code 3482.5 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits brought by neighbors who moved in after farming began. The…

California Civil Code Section 4710 universally prohibits homeowner associations from banning noncommercial political signs on owner-occupied separate interest property, overriding any…

California prohibits grocery stores and large retailers from providing single-use plastic carryout bags under Public Resources Code 42280-42288, enacted by SB 270 (2014) and ratified…

California restricts expanded polystyrene food containers statewide through SB 54 (2022) packaging requirements under Public Resources Code 42040-42081. The law mandates that…

California Public Resources Code 42270-42273, enacted by AB 1884 (2018), prohibits full-service restaurants from providing single-use plastic straws unless requested by the customer…

California prohibits sale of tobacco and vapor products to anyone under 21 statewide under Business and Professions Code 22958, enacted by SBX2-7 in 2016. The Tobacco 21 standard…

California bans retail sale of most flavored tobacco products statewide under Health and Safety Code 104559.5, enacted by SB 793 (2020) and upheld by voters via Proposition 31 in…

California provides statewide protections for native oak woodlands and heritage trees through CEQA review, Public Resources Code, and Forest Practice Rules that apply uniformly.

California works from a closed list: Vehicle Code section 24003 says no vehicle may carry any lamp or illuminating device not required or permitted by the code, so an accessory light…

California measures dash cam placement in square inches. Vehicle Code section 26708(b)(13) lets a video event recorder occupy a seven-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield…

Lane splitting is lawful in California. Vehicle Code section 21658.1, added by AB 51 in 2016, defines it as driving a motorcycle with two wheels in contact with the ground between rows…

California does not let you put a cover over your license plate. Vehicle Code section 5201(c) allows exactly two things: a full car cover on a lawfully parked vehicle, and a license…

No section of the California Vehicle Code makes it an offense for a private motorist to own, carry or use a radar detector. The prohibition in Vehicle Code section 28150 reaches only…

California permits metal studded tires only between November 1 and April 30, and only where the studs are tungsten carbide or another suitable material and the metal touching the road…

California never publishes a "legal VLT" for front side windows because it does not permit aftermarket darkening there at all. Vehicle Code section 26708(d) allows only clear…