Tigard, OR Building Safety: Door Locking Hardware (2026)

Tigard Municipal Code § 14.16.180 sets the door standards for residential property in the City of Tigard. Subsection A requires every dwelling or dwelling unit to have at least one door leading to an exterior yard or court (or, for a two-family dwelling or apartment, to an approved exit), and every such door must be openable from the inside without a key or any special knowledge or effort. Screen doors and storm doors are held to the same test. Subsection C requires a lock on every door to the exterior of a dwelling unit, designed to discourage unwanted entry and to permit opening from the inside without a key. Subsection B adds a hardware test for common areas: in hotels and apartment houses, exit doors in common corridors or passageways must open with one hand in a single motion, such as pressing a bar or turning a knob.

Maintenance is a separate duty. Under subsection D, every exterior door, door hinge, door lock and strike plate must be kept in good condition, every closed exterior door must fit reasonably well within its frame and be weather-tight, and the frame must be kept so as to exclude rain and wind. Interior doors and frames must stay sound, with the door fitting within the frame (subsection E). Related sections reach the same hardware. Section 14.16.170(G) requires openable windows within 10 feet of the exterior grade to latch securely from the inside and to open from the inside without a key. Section 14.16.300 keeps doorways, windows and devices used for the means of escape in good working order, bars encumbrances at required exits, makes it unlawful to wedge or prop open self-closing stair enclosure doors, and requires windows leading to fire escapes to be secured with approved devices that open from the inside without a key, special knowledge, effort or tool.