Maricopa, AZ Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)

It is unlawful for any person to maintain or commit a nuisance, or to willfully omit to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a nuisance, including but not limited to an order of abatement by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

2. No person shall erect, maintain, use, place, deposit, cause, allow, leave or permit to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any public right-of-way, street, avenue, alley, park, parkway or other public or private place any condition, thing or act, to the prejudice, danger or annoyance of others, including but not limited to, the following:

a. Throwing, depositing, dumping or discharging into or about any ditch within the city anything injurious to the public health or offensive to the senses.

b. No owner, lessee, tenant or other person who keeps or controls any animal shall cause, allow or permit any manure or liquid discharge of such animal to unreasonably accumulate on private property or to be unloaded, left or dumped in or upon any ditch, street, alley, sidewalk, place, vacant lot or public property within the city.

c. Storage of construction materials for a period in excess of 14 days in whole, broken or discarded condition in unsheltered areas of a yard and in which insects may breed or multiply or which provides harborage for rodents or which constitutes a hazard to the public health and safety.