Restrictions on Vehicle Parking and Storage

Yuba County Ordinance Code 9.10.530. - Use of Streets for Storage of Vehicles:

  1. No person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of 72 hours. (This includes motor homes, travel trailers, boat trailers, etc.)
  2. In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street or alley in excess of a period of 72 hours, the Sheriff or Code Enforcement Officer or any member of the California Highway Patrol may remove said vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of the Vehicle Code.

Yuba County Ordinance Code 9.21.045. - Commercial Vehicles Over Specified Weight Parking or Standing on Residential Streets:

The parking or standing of commercial vehicles on streets in residential areas, including self-propelled vehicles with or without trailers, having a manufacturer's gross weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more, and all commercial trailers, is prohibited.

Yuba County Ordinance Code 9.21.040. - Commercial Vehicle Parking on Public Ways:

No person shall cause, allow or permit any vehicle of more than two-ton capacity, which is registered in that person's name or which is operated or controlled by that person to be parked on any public street, thoroughfare, sidewalk or other public way for more than five consecutive hours, except:

  1. When loading or unloading property and time in addition to such five-hour period is necessary to complete such work;
  2. When such vehicle is parked in connection with and in the aid of the performance of a service to or on the property in the block in which such vehicle is parked, and time in addition to such five-hour period is necessary to complete such service.

Yuba County Ordinance Code 7.35.010. - Abandoned, Wrecked, Dismantled, or Inoperative Vehicles:

  1. In accordance with the authority granted by the State of California under Vehicle Code § 22660 to remove abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Yuba hereby makes the following findings and declarations:
  2. The accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property is hereby found to create a condition having the potential to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harborage for rodents and insects to be injurious to the health, safety, and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof, on private or public property, except as expressly hereinafter permitted, is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance of the Yuba County Ordinance Code and may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or Chapter 7.36.
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AVA (Abandoned Vehicle Abatement) Program

Yuba County is the local Service Authority for the States Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program. The authority has three (3) entity members consisting of the County of Yuba, the City of Marysville and the City of Wheatland. The program is designed to assist service authorities by offsetting the cost to remove vehicles that are abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or otherwise inoperable within the County right-of-way.

Of the 58 Counties in the State of California approximately 39 Service Authorities have been established. This program is funded by registration fees. A $1.00 (one dollar) fee is collected each time a vehicle / motorcycle / vessel is registered within the County. Based on a fiscal year, each participating service authority is provided funding in quarterly increments.

Each year the service authority is required to submit an annual report to the State Department of Finance. This report will identify the total amount of funds received, the number of vehicles removed, total expenditures for the service authority, the cost of each removal and any unexpended funds.

For general information regarding Vehicle Abatement, please refer to our Vehicle Abatement Pamphlet. If you would like to report a vehicle or have any questions about this program, please submit a complaint.

Vehicles abandoned on private property are presumed to be the property owner's responsibility and are not subject to removal with AVA funding; therefore, the property owner will be financially responsible for the removal. The California Highway Patrol is the primary agency for the State Highways.

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