Collierville, TN Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Section 95.08(A) of the Collierville Code of Ordinances is the nuisance standard for private property. No owner or tenant of property within the Town may commit an act, or allow a condition to exist, that endangers life or health, violates the laws of decency, obstructs or interferes with the reasonable and comfortable use of other property in the vicinity, or causes the value of property in the near vicinity to be diminished in value. The test reaches conditions as well as acts, so a neglected structure or lot that drags down nearby values is covered without any separate building-condition finding.

Subsection (E) supplies the consequence. Persons or entities that violate the section are guilty of committing a nuisance or allowing a nuisance to exist, and the offender is subject to a fine not to exceed the maximum permitted by law. Each violation on a separate day is a separate offense, so a condition left standing keeps accruing offenses.

Building condition is handled through the property maintenance code. Section 150.090 adopts modifications and amendments to the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC). Wherever the IPMC refers to the code official, it means the person appointed or designated by the municipal governing body to administer and enforce the code. The title is amended so the regulations are known as the Property Maintenance Code of the Town of Collierville. Section 111 on appeals is deleted and replaced: the Town of Collierville Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals is the appeals body authorized to hear and decide appeals of orders, decisions or determinations made by the code official on the application and interpretation of the code. Section 150.091 also adopts Appendix A, the Boarding Standard, which governs how a vacant structure is boarded. The Town's Code prints only these local modifications, so the substantive IPMC standards are found in the adopted model code itself.

Related chapters cover specific blight conditions, including weeds and noxious growth in § 95.05 and the junked motor vehicle nuisance in Chapter 93.