Hialeah, FL Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Exterior surface standard
- Free of chipping, cracking, peeling, fading
- Unlawful acts clause
- Sec. 50-29 bars maintaining any violating condition
- Base civil penalty
- $100 (Sec. 22-190)
- Continuing violation cap
- 30x original penalty
- Enforcement path
- Code inspector, then special master hearing
Summary
Hialeah requires every exterior building and wall surface to be properly painted or coated and kept free of chipping, cracking, discoloration or peeling. Maintaining any structure or condition that violates the minimum housing code is a separate, standalone offense.
All exterior building and wall surfaces shall be properly maintained and protected by paint and/or other protective coating approved in accordance with federal, state or county laws and regulations and applied in a workmanlike manner. All exterior building and wall surfaces shall be free of chipping, pitting, cracking, discoloration, peeling or fading.
Full Breakdown
Sec. 50-28 requires all exterior building and wall surfaces citywide to be properly maintained and protected by paint or another approved protective coating, applied in a workmanlike manner and in accordance with federal, state or county requirements, and to be kept free of chipping, pitting, cracking, discoloration, peeling or fading. Sec. 50-29 separately makes it unlawful for anyone to 'create, build, construct, install, place or maintain' any structure or condition on property they own or control that violates the minimum housing code adopted in Sec.
50-26, making the property owner directly liable for the underlying blighted condition, not just its surface finish. Enforcement runs through Sec. 50-27 into the general code enforcement mechanics of chapter 22: a code inspector issues a notice of civil violation, sets a correction deadline, and, if the deficiency isn't fixed, refers the case to a special master for a hearing. The Sec. 22-190 penalty schedule fixes the civil penalty for a Sec. 50-28 exterior-maintenance violation at $100. Under Sec. 22-184(d), an uncorrected violation keeps accruing a daily penalty in the same amount after the correction deadline passes, capped at 30 times the original fine, and Sec.
22-184(e) doubles the base penalty for a repeat violation. Unpaid penalties become a recoverable debt and can be reduced to a lien against the property under Sec. 22-187.
Violations & Fines
A Sec. 50-28 exterior-maintenance violation carries a $100 civil penalty under the Sec. 22-190 schedule; if not corrected by the deadline in the notice of violation, additional daily penalties accrue up to 30 times the original fine (Sec. 22-184(d)), doubling for a repeat violation (Sec. 22-184(e)), with unpaid amounts recoverable as a lien against the property (Sec. 22-187).
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