Eagle Mountain, UT Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Trigger
- Imminent life safety hazard
- Emergency powers
- Vacate, post unsafe, board/fence/secure, raze
- Demolition standard
- Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code
- Owner notice
- Within 10 days of emergency abatement
- Cost liability
- Responsible person pays all abatement costs
Summary
Eagle Mountain's enforcement officer, chief building inspector or fire marshal can post a property as unsafe, substandard or dangerous, board it up, and even raze it to stop collapse under EMMC 4.10.050. Demolition follows the Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code per EMMC 4.10.080, with all costs charged back to the responsible party.
Whenever the enforcement officer determines that an imminent life safety hazard exists that requires immediate correction or elimination, the enforcement officer may exercise the following powers without prior notice to the responsible person: ... ... 2. Post the premises as unsafe, substandard, or dangerous; 3. Board, fence, or secure the building or site; 4. Raze and grade that portion of the building or site to prevent further collapse, and remove any hazard to the general public; ... Whenever the enforcement officer, chief building inspector or fire marshal determines that a property or building requires demolition, any one of them may demolish or remove the offending structure, or exercise any or all of the powers listed in EMMC 4.10.050 once appropriate notice has been given to a responsible person pursuant to the Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code or Uniform Fire Codes as required under state law. The responsible person shall be liable for all costs associated with the demolition.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance O-34-2026, passed August 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
050 authorizes emergency action without prior notice to the owner. The officer can order tenants to vacate and bar reoccupancy until repairs are done, post the premises as unsafe, substandard, or dangerous, board, fence or secure the building or site, raze and grade the portion of the building or site needed to prevent further collapse and remove the hazard to the public, make minimal emergency repairs to eliminate the imminent hazard, or take any other action appropriate to eliminate the emergency. The officer may enter the property without a warrant or court order, based on cause, to carry out this abatement.
060 limits the officer to the minimum level of correction needed to eliminate the immediacy of the hazard, and the city recovers its costs through the remedies procedures in Title 4. 080 lets the enforcement officer, chief building inspector, or fire marshal demolish or remove the structure once notice has been given under the Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code or the Uniform Fire Codes, as state law requires. 070, and the responsible person is liable for every dollar the city spends on the demolition or emergency repair, recoverable the same way as any other code enforcement cost.
Violations & Fines
A property owner who lets a dangerous or substandard building sit is liable for every cost the city incurs abating it, from securing and razing the structure to any emergency repairs, and those costs are recovered under Title 4's cost-recovery remedies. Ignoring the notice does not stop the abatement: the enforcement officer can act first and bill the responsible person afterward under EMMC 4.10.050 and 4.10.080.
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