Aurora, IL Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Offense
- Criminal housing management
- Trigger
- Gross neglect endangering occupant safety
- Minimum fine
- $500 upon conviction
- Enforced by
- Aurora code official
Summary
Aurora, Illinois bars landlords from letting rental housing decay into a health or safety hazard through gross neglect, a criminal offense under the city's Property Maintenance Code.
Criminal housing management is hereby prohibited. A person commits criminal housing management when, having personal management or control of residential real estate, whether as a legal or equitable owner thereof, or as a managing agent or otherwise, they knowingly permits, by his gross carelessness or neglect, the physical condition or facilities of the residential real estate to become or remain so deteriorated that the health and safety of an inhabitant is endangered.
A person convicted of criminal housing management shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00). The maximum fine shall be as determined by the court, may include imprisonment, or may be subject to other remedies as provided by law and as determined by the court.
Full Breakdown
Aurora's Property Maintenance Code, adopted by the home-rule city and applied uniformly across the Kane, DuPage, Will and Kendall County portions of Aurora, makes it a crime for anyone controlling residential real estate to knowingly let it deteriorate through gross carelessness or neglect until it endangers an occupant's health or safety. The Development Services code official enforces the standard citywide, and a conviction carries penalties beyond a routine code-violation fine.
Violations & Fines
Fine of at least $500 upon conviction; the court may add imprisonment or other remedies for criminal housing management.
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