Cameron County, TX Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

1 declares the order 'the housing code for the County,' remedial and meant to secure public safety, health and welfare through structural strength, sanitation, light, ventilation and fire safety. used or designed or intended to be used for human habitation, regardless of when such building may have been constructed,' and puts maintenance responsibility on the owner or the owner's agent. 4 opens with the operative bar: no owner-occupant may occupy, and no owner may let or sublet, any dwelling once the Building Official has given notice that the structure 'is deemed unsafe for human occupancy,' and no dwelling may be 'permitted to exist' if it fails the minimum requirements or is defined as substandard.

Those requirements cover sanitary facilities (a working kitchen sink, lavatory and tub or shower connected to an approved water and sewer system), hot water of at least 120 degrees Fahrenheit from a 30-gallon heater, safe egress with seven-foot ceiling clearance, sound stairs and porches, structurally sound floors, walls and roofs, and foundations free of dirt floors or shifting under normal stress. 024, heard by the Court itself on its own motion or on request of any interested person.