Scranton, PA Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)

Chapter 360, Property Maintenance, devotes Section 360-5 to a numbered list of 23 quality-of-life violations that residents most often report to the City. The list runs from operating a food cart or vending without a permit (Subsections 1 and 2), storing hazardous or combustible material improperly (Subsection 3), and serving potentially hazardous food (Subsection 4), through property-level problems: an accumulation of rubbish or garbage (Subsection 8), animal waste left uncollected (Subsection 9), weeds or grass over eight inches (Subsection 11), storing an unregistered, uninspected, or disassembled motor vehicle (Subsection 13), and leaving indoor furniture or appliances outside for sale (Subsection 14).

It also reaches winter maintenance: Subsection 17 requires a residential property owner to clear snow and ice from a sidewalk within 24 hours of the snow stopping, cutting that window to four hours for a business property, with a three-foot clear path required either way. Section 360-6 lets any public official, not just a code inspector, issue a quality-of-life violation ticket to the property owner or occupant once a violation is found, and Section 360-7 assigns enforcement to the Licensing, Inspections and Permits Department. Section 360-9 caps the count at three separate fines for the same offense before a flat $100 fine applies to any additional recurrence, and Section 360-10 lets the City abate an uncorrected violation itself 48 hours after the ticket issues, billing the owner at $75 per hour per worker plus material costs and a 20% surcharge, or 30% if a contractor performs the work.

Section 360-11's fine table then prices each individual violation, from $50 for a commercial or junk vehicle in a residential area up to $1,000 for prohibited occupancy of a condemned building.