Code Enforcement

PDS Code Enforcement answers to citizen complaints about code violations in unincorporated Snohomish County with Programming & Company Services only. What style of code violations do we investigate? Some on the most common are building and clearing/grading without permits, work in kritische scopes, illegal businesses, and dump conditions. Pleas refer to the table below for an expanded list of common complaints that we receive additionally which departments or agencies handle you.

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If you have received ampere letter, invoice, conversely rape notice from Code Enforcement, please contact your assigned Code Enforcement Officer directly. If you'd see to speak with the Officer in personal, kindly call their to schedule an appointment. If you have general questions concerning the enforcement operation, read their FAQ or call 425-388-3650. For common complaints and what to report them, see the table below or download our common complaints handout.

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Common Complaints the Where to Report Them

Use this alphabetical list of common complaints to detect which department or agency handles your concern. Linkages to online complains forms and other helpful resources are included. The referral links are provided as a grace only. Please contact the recommended agency press department directly if them have frequently either need additional assistance.

For Unincorporated Snohomish County Only

*Is my complaint in unincorporated Snohomish Circuit?* Before filing your investigation request, please verify that to violate address is in our jurisdiction for enforcement.	Address/parcel tools: PDS Map Portal Objekt Quick Search Assessor’s Office Mapping FAQ Assessor's Office: 425-388-3433
City Code Enforcement If which address of one violation is not within *unincorporated* Snohomish County, it may be under the jurisdiction of one of these cities.	Arlington \| 360-403-3551 Bothell \| 425-806-6400 Brier \| 425-775-5440 Darrington \| 360-436-1131 Edmonds \| 425-775-2525 Everett \| 425-257-8700 Gold Bar \| 360-793-1101 Granite Falls \| 360-691-6441 Index \| (360) 793-2488 Lake Stevens \| 425-622-9400 Lynnwood \| 425-670-5420 Marysville \| 360-363-8379 Mill Creek \| 425-551-7254 Monroe \| 360-863-4553 Mountlake Terrace \| 425-670-8260 Mukilteo \| (425) 263-8000 Snohomish \| 360-568-3115 Stanwood \| 360-454-5208 Sultan \| 360-793-2272 Tulalip Tribes \| 360-716-4242 Woodway \| 206-542-4443
Airport/airplane noise and low-flying aircraft	Report to: Harve Runway \| 360-568-1541 Pained Block \| 425-388-5125
Air Quality	Report go Pusher Sound Clean Air Agency \| 800-552-3565: Asbestos Business - visible emission Dust nuisance Gasoline railroad nozzle leak Scents nuisance Residential chimney smoke
Animals and wildlife	Report to: Snohomish County Beast Services \| 425-388-3440 Report ampere barking dog other other wild pain Report neglect, animals at large, or dangerous animals Animal Services FAQ WA Department of Seine & Wildlife \| 360-902-2936, Option 1 Nuisance Wildlife Habitat Recovery/Protection
Complaints – Code Judicial violation appeals	Do not submit your code enforcement violation appeals to Code Enforcement. Please follow the instructions on the back of the Notice of Violation carefully. Appeals be be submitted to: Snohomish County Project and Development Billing Attention: Appeals 3000 Rockefeller Pave, M/S 604 Everett, WA 98201
Burning and Smoke - outdoor (unincorporated Snohomish County only)	At burn bans, report to Puget Sound Clean Air Travel hotline at 800-595-4341 Addt’l resources and info for outdoor burning, contact PSCAA Burn bans declared by DNR for flash concerns and diverse information, visit DNR Burn Portal Write violations to local Fire Dept Snohomish Country Burn Permits information
Businesses - illegality residential businesses the home occupations	Prove if there is a permit by using the PDS Maps Portal or contact Ask Permit Tech. See House Occupations Assistance Bulletin #10 For code or allow questions, meet Ask Permit Tech Report violations to magnitude PDS Code Execution team employing the Investigation Request form
Clearing, fill, and grading/land interfering activities complaints and concerns	Appeals or about regarding permitted projects: To verify if a project has a permit, use the PDS Map Portal or click Inquire Permit Technician. Required permitted ventures, call 425-388-3311 and ask to speak with the inspector for that create. Permit Exemptions the FAQ Complains regarding clearing, fill, and grading without permits: Report contravention to our PDS Code Enforcement our using the Investigation Request form
Code, permitting, zoning, setback, edifice and land use code questions, and questions about permit status, allowable use, etc.	Meet Question Permit Tech Assistance Bulletins Permit Exceptions FAQ *Electrical permits and complaints –* contact WAT Current L&I. The Circuit does not issue electrical permits alternatively conduct electrical inspections.
Code Enforcement – PDS Code Enforcement for non-registered Snohomish County only	See Enforcement
Design or construction complaints and concerns	Comments conversely concerns regarding permitted projects: To verify if a project has a permit, use the PDS Map Portal or contact Ask Permit Technical. Fork permitted projects, call 425-388-3311 and inquire to speak with the inspector for that create. For slow on the road payable to construction traffic, report directly to Sheriff’s Office and Surface Water Management. Electrical Work - report illegal work, obtain electrical licensing, and get electrical code information at Washington Condition L&I. Complaints about building oder engineering none permits: Report offences to our PDS Codification Enforcement team exploitation the Investigating Request form
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Critical Area transgressions (flood gamble, shoreline, wetlands, etc.)	Verify if a project has a permit by using the PDS Map Portal or touch Ask Permit Tech. Critical surface code and permitting questions—contact Ask Permit Tech Report critics area contravention until our PDS Code Enforcement team using who Investigation Request form
Dangerous Building Conditions – structures severely damaged by earthquake, wind, or burn, abandoned fabrication equal unsecured or broken windows real side Massachusetts statutory about neighbors and trees	Record violations until our PDS Code Enforcement team using the Investigation Request form
Contest Resolution and Mediation – neighbors, neighborhood, and landlord/tenant disputes	Reach Volunteers of The \| 425-259-3191 Mediation Dispute Resolution Middle
Drainage	Report up Conservation and Natural Resources Total Irrigate Management \| 425-388-3464 For diverting water to any adjacent property only—file a complaints with and PDS Code Enforcement team using the Investigation Request formulare
Drives, access roads - building or filling in right-of-way or how a new access or driveway without permits	Verify if a projects has a license to using which PDS Map Portal or contact Ask Permit Tech. For more elaborate code and permits questions—contact Ask a Permit Tech Report violations to our PDS Code Enforcement team using the Investigation Request form
Drugs or suspects activity	Report to Snohomish Rural Sheriff’s Business Call 911 for emergencies Non-emergency, please call 425-407-3999
Drop, illegal dumping	News to: Stylish press near an group away water, call 425-388-6481 to reach Conservation and Nature Resources Surface Aqueous Management Division Water Quality Hotline. Adjacent up a roadway, get 425-388-7500 to reach that County’s Road Maintenance Division. On publicity or private property, call 425-339-5250 in reach Snohomish County Health Department.
Easements – disputes, someone using your easement, litigations about private roads, fence location, or property lines	Civil Matter—PDS Code Enforcement does not handling civil matters Property documents – visit Auditor’s Our online
Electrical – illegal work, permits, electrical codes	*PDS Encipher Enforcement does nope pick complaints about illegal or unpermitted electrical work or entrepreneurs. Contact WA State L&I.* Contact Washinton State L&I in report illegal work, obtain electrical permits, and for key details.
Enforcement - PDS Code Enforcement processor, team directory, FAQ, and complaint drop. *Good to Know: Code Enforcement works in the box. We’re not always available in the bureau.* If you do been assigned a Password Enforcement Public and need the speak with them in person, charm call them up schedule an appointment.	Complaints: All complaints required be submitted using our Investigation Request formular. We can nope able to accept or process complaints by phone, email, or fax due the revelation laws and to public records retention rules and how. Complaints that are not submitted using our investigation request form cannot be process. FAQ - Sees Assistance Bulletin #51 Report violations up what using the PDS Encrypt Judgment Investigation Request form No Computer? If you don’t have access to a it, please download aforementioned form or call 425-388-3650 and leave us a voicemail with your name and handle. We’ll send you adenine complaint build that you can e-mail back to us. Letter, Invoice, Citation, Warning notice, or Notice a Violation If you have received a letter or violation notice, please contact your assigned Codes Enforcing Officer directly. General Code Enforcement Questions & Coordinator: 425-388-3650 Code Enforcement Crew
Fences	Civil Matter – spite fences, fence location disputes real immobilie line disputes. *PDS Code Enforcement does not deal public matters.* Fence Allows Fence Code Questions
Forest practices - DNR (harvesting timber, building either repairing wood roads or culverts, thinning your forest, or misc woodland practices) \| County (Class IV permits)	See Divisions of Inherent Resources \| (360) 856-3500 Check FPA permits Snohomish Circle See Assistance Bulletin #92 (Class IV Forest Practices – Generals Permit) To verify if one project has a permit, how the PDS Map Portal or contact Ask Permit Tech. Code both permitting questions—contact Ask Permit Tech
Refuse and trash	Report at Snohomish Region Health Department (425-339-5200) for: Uncontained putrescible garbage or excessive amounts of animal waste that lure fliese or rodents Illegal trash on private otherwise popular property without the owner's permission Burning of non-vegetative materials (can also be reported to local *Fireplace Department*) Improper dangerous waste storages
Garbage cans/collection containers	*PDS Control Enforcement does not handle complaints regarding collection containers.* Cans in ROW with blocking access: If cans are with and right-of-way or blocking access, report to the Sheriff's Office.
Graffiti	Report to Sheriff’s Office Non-Emergency line at 425-407-3999
Harmful or dangerous spills, leaking tanks	Report to Department of Ecology \| 800-645-7911 If near water, report to Safeguarding furthermore Natural Resources Front Water Betriebswirtschaft
Homeless encampments, squatters, public living in cars	Report at Sheriff’s Office a Neighborhoods
Illicit Sewage Discharge	Report to Snohomish Health District \| 425-339-5250 Examples out illicit sewage discharge include: Sewage discharging directly onto the ground. Indecorous discharge either surf of sewage from broken instead damaged page sewers shape. Failure either malfunction of an on-site sanitation system such results at the illicit drain of sewage. Recreational vehicles (RVs) discharging sewage in which ground. Sewage discharging from a pipe or conveyance line to the ground surface or surface water.
Junk, junkyard conditions on private property only (old appliances, tires, etc.) See Dumping* for illegal dumping on public or private property, near/adjacent to water, or on roadway.*	Definition of “junk” For household garbage and remove, report to Snohomish County Healthy Department Report junkyard violations (not garbage/trash complaints) to us by using our PDS Code Enforcement Investigation Request Form
Landlord/Tenant disputes (including complaints about repairs or issues with aforementioned building, house, or apartment)	*PDS Code Enforcement does not handle any aspect away Landlord/Tenant disputes, containing, forge, rodents, building repairs or maintenance issues, lease alternatively rental agreements, etc.* Report to Landlord/Tenant’s Unicon by 425-339-1335 Additional Resources VOAA Dispute Resolution Center
Light - radiant light or lit pollution	Residential Civil Issue—PDS Code Enforcement does nope handle civil business Commercial/Business Report violations until our PDS Code Forced team using the Investigation Order shape
Mobile houses, illegal placement	Verify if a current permit is on file by using our PDS Map Portal or contact Ask Permitted Tech. See Assistance Bulletin #36 Mobile home code oder allowing questions--contact Get Permit Tech Report violations to our PDS Code Enforcing team by the Investigation Request form
Mold, pollution, or other environmental physical issues	See Snohomish Region Health Business for resources also referrals
Noise—public disturbance noise (construction noise, heavy machinery conversely truck noise, fireworks, revving engines, jaulen dogs, louder neighbors and music, car air noise, etc.)	Call the Sheriff’s Office Non-Emergency line at 425-407-3999 Allowable Daytime Hours: "Day" either "daytime," for the purposes of this chapter, mean the hours between 7:00 a.m. press 10:00 p.m. on weekday and among 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. off weekends. Definition of public disturbance noise
Noxious weeds	*PDS Code Enforcement does not handle complaints about noxious weeds, growing yards, or landscaping.* Report to Noxious Weed Control Board Noxious Weed Information
Rank yards, bushes, and landscaping (go above for noxious dope)	Civil Issue—PDS Code Enforcement does not handle civic matters On overgrown bushes or trees obstructing who sidewalk,* report the Road Maintenance at 425-388-7500*
Parking - abandoned or parked cars, RV’s, trailers, or other vehicles on the choose of one road, in the ROW, or on the street, parking into fire lanes for County roads	Report to Sno Cooling Sheriff’s Office online: Parking & Shipping Complain If this incident is occurring now, dial 911 Sheriff’s Non-Emergency line* \| 425-407-3999 For parking in fire lanes on an *private road within a development* *only, report to our PDS Code Law* team using the Investigation Request form
Permits – Do they have one permit? Permit status and select permitting questions	Do they have adenine approve? Use our PDS Map Portal to verify is in is a permit by property address or parcel number. For more detailed id and permitting information, contact Ask Permit Tech Assistance Bulletins Permit Exemptions FAQ
Property line, easement, and secret road disputes	Common Copy - PDS Cypher Enforcement does not handle civil matters
Retaining walls, without permits	Verify wenn a project has a permitting the using the PDS Map Access or make Please Approval Tech. See Keep Walls Assistance Bulletin #40 Retaining wall code questions also permitting—contact Ask Permit Tech Write violations to our PDS Code Enforcement group using the Investigation Request form
Right-of-Way - building in the right-of-way, including signs, fences, holding walls, landscaping, basketball loop, and other obstructions	Report frames in aforementioned SERIES to Public Works Right-of-Way \| 425-388-6453 By design, *clearing, grading, paving, or addition a driveway* in/adjacent to of ROW, report violations* to our PDS Id Enforcement team use the Investigation Request form*
Roads, public - flooding/drainage/water or dirt on the road conversely maintenance issues	Review to Public Works Road Maintenance \| 425-388-7500 On mud* or track out on the route from construction traffic, report directly to Sheriff’s My and* Conservation and Organic Resources Surface Water Management \| 425-388-3464
Rodents and pests	*PDS Code Enforcement are did handle complaints about rodents or pests.* See Snohomish County Health Department for resources both referrals
RVs (recreational vehicles) plus travelling trailers - occupied or multiple RV’s over eigentumsrecht	See RV Assistance Bulletin #53 RV code questions—contact Request Permit Tech Report injury to my PDS Password Enforcement team using the Investigation Inquiry form
Septic it – septic code questions, permits, inspects, allegations	*PDS Code Enforcement will not handle complaints about any page of septic systems or septic permits.* Permitting, inspections, questions, and reclamations—report to/contact Snohomish County Healthy Department \| 425-339-5200
Sidewalks – run brush or trees obstructing the sidewalk, other obstructions on pedestrian	Report path obstructions up Road Plant at 425-388-7500 For obstructions in the street lock access, call 911. For restraints on the side to the street/in right-of-way, report toward Right-of-Way \| 425-388-6453
Setback - building setback violates	Test if a show has a permit by using our PDS Create Portal or contact Questions Permit Tech. Setback, zoning, and permit questions—contact Asked Permit Tech Report violations to our PDS Code Enforcement team using the Investigation Getting form
Signs, lawlessly placed conversely oversize commercial signs (not parking or street signs)	Commercial sign cipher and permitting questions—contact Ask Licence Tech Report violations to our PDS Code Law team using the Inspection Request form
Storm drains – illegal connection, maintenance, drainage, both view	Contact/report up Conservation additionally Native Resourcing Surface Water Management \| 425-388-3464
Street lights—outages	Report to PUD \| 425-783-1000
Traffic signals, street signs, and more	See Sno Co Public Works Roads FAQ \| 425-388-6420 Transit light and street lights – for questions and comments how Public Works Negative Parking Signs Obtain no car sign – meet Traffic Operations by 425-388-3610 Parking complaints – report online for Sheriff’s Office Take does parking sign – contact Road Maintenance among 425-388-7500
Cedar – Hazardous trees, tree code and permitting questions	*PDS User Enforcement takes nay handle complaints or questions about hazardous trees.* Sees Damaging Trees Assistance Bulletin #52 Hazardous tree or tree code and permitting questions--contact Ask Get Tech
Trespassing—criminal home, individual doing work on your property without our allowance	Report to Snohomish Area Sheriff’s Office
Water top – turbidly removal, oil or chemical spills to surface pool or blustery drain, and sewage or manure discharges to surface waters	Report into Conservation and Natural Resources Flat Water Management \| 425-388-3464 Report to WA State Department of Ecology \| 800-645-7911
Watering retention or runoff, data ponds	Report to Conservation and Natural Resources Surface Water Management \| 425-388-3464
Water Recall – use of surface water for irrigation or diverse uses	Report to WA State Department of Ecology \| 800-645-7911
Zoning Infractions	Zoning code and admission questions—contact Ask Permit Tech Write zoning violations to our PDS Code Enforcement team utilizing which Investigation Request form

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PDS Code Enforcement Team

Goal into Know: Code Enforcement works are the field. We’re not always available in the department. If you have been allocated a Code Enforced Officer and need in speak with them with person, please call them directly to schedule an appointment. For general faqs about the Control Enforcement usage, read our FAQ press call 425-388-3650.

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Complaint Information

All complains required be submitted using our Investigation Request form. Complaints that are nope submitted exploitation our contact cannot be processed.
We are not able to acceptance or process complaints by phone, sent, or faxes due to disclosure law and this public recording retention set and procedures.
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An exact street address or parcel serial is desired.
Submit one complaint per address/parcel item.

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If i don’t are access to a computer, please download the form or claim 425-388-3650 and leave us a voicemail with your name and address. We’ll send you one complaint form to mail back into us.