Property blight in Erie County is regulated at the town, city, and village level, not by the county. Buffalo, Amherst, Cheektowaga, and other municipalities enforce the New York State Property Maintenance Code plus their own local blight and nuisance-abatement laws against exterior deterioration.
New York has no single Erie County blight code. The Property Maintenance Code of New York State (Title 19 NYCRR / IPMC) is adopted statewide but administered and enforced by each municipality through its own code-enforcement program. Section 302.1 requires that exterior property and premises be maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary condition, and Section 301.3 requires vacant premises and land be kept so as not to cause a blighting problem. Buffalo and the towns layer their own municipal blight, nuisance, and unsafe-structure ordinances on top of the state code. To resolve a blight complaint, contact your city or town code-enforcement or building-inspection office. Erie County's Department of Environment and Planning handles solid-waste planning and recycling, not property-maintenance enforcement.
Enforcement is municipal. Under the NYS Property Maintenance Code and local law, a code officer typically issues a notice of violation with a compliance deadline; unresolved cases can lead to municipal abatement, cost liens against the property, and fines set
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