Aurora, CO Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)
Key Facts
- Imminent-danger deadline
- 24 hours from notice
- Standard nuisance deadline
- 60 days from notice
- Enforcing office
- Director of Neighborhood Services
- Appeal window
- 30 days of notice
- Unpaid costs become
- lien on the property
Summary
Aurora must abate an imminent-danger nuisance within 24 hours of notice; other public nuisances get 60 days after inspection and notice.
If the public nuisance constitutes a great and immediate danger to the public health, safety or welfare, such notice shall specifically describe the public nuisance and shall direct the owner or occupant of the property where the public nuisance exists or the person causing, permitting or maintaining such nuisance to abate or remove such nuisance within 24 hours of service of the notice in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. The notice shall state that unless such nuisance is so abated or removed, the city will cause it to be abated or removed; that the cost thereof will be charged to the owner, occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining the nuisance; and that such cost shall be a lien on the real property where the nuisance was abated or removed. Such notice shall also state the failure of such owner, occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining the nuisance to abate the nuisance as required shall be deemed an implied consent for the City to abate or remove such nuisance.
(4) Other notice. If the public nuisance does not constitute a great and immediate danger to the public health, safety or welfare, the director of neighborhood services or designee shall serve a notice to abate described in subsection (b)(2) of this section in accordance with subsection (c) of this section upon the owner or occupant of such premises, requiring the abatement or removal of the violation within 60 days.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-30, passed June 22, 2026).
Full Breakdown
After a nuisance complaint reaches the director of neighborhood services, an inspector must promptly inspect and file a written report. If the nuisance is a great and immediate danger to public health, safety or welfare, the notice must direct abatement within 24 hours of service. If it is not an immediate danger, the notice gives the owner or occupant 60 days to abate or remove it. Either way, if the deadline passes without action, the city can abate the nuisance itself and bill the owner, with unpaid costs becoming a lien on the property. Owners can appeal a nuisance determination to the city manager within 30 days of the notice.
Violations & Fines
Miss the 24-hour or 60-day deadline and the city abates the nuisance itself, billing all costs to the owner as a property lien; the notice states failure to act is deemed consent to that city action.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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