Bannock County, ID Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Section 15.04.040(H) adopts the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, 1994 edition, as one of the model codes making up the Bannock County Building Code for all unincorporated areas. Enforcement runs through Section 15.04.160, which starts with voluntary compliance: the county encourages voluntary code compliance by providing responsible persons the opportunity to correct violations with little or no penalty, and the building official can approve a written compliance agreement setting a deadline no more than ten days beyond the notice-of-violation grace period, so long as the violation is not a repeat offense and does not pose an imminent threat to people or property.

If an owner will not sign or complete a compliance agreement, Section 15.04.160(D) makes any violation of the adopted codes, including the dangerous buildings code, a misdemeanor punishable under Idaho Code Section 39-4126, and treats each day a dangerous structure remains uncorrected as a separate violation for both civil and criminal purposes. Section 15.04.160(E) lets a judge impose a fine running from the end of the compliance grace period until the violation is actually fixed, and that fine is recorded as a lien on the property until it is paid in full.

An owner can appeal a building official's dangerous-building determination to the board of appeals within ten calendar days under Section 15.04.170, though the board cannot waive the underlying code requirements.