Leander, TX Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

004 adopts Local Government Code chapter 214 into the article and declares that "[a]ll unsafe buildings, unfit dwellings or dangerous buildings are hereby declared to be public nuisances and shall be abated by repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal," making it unlawful for anyone to maintain or permit such a building to remain in that condition. 002 adopts the 1985 Standard Unsafe Building Abatement Code, with the city's Board of Adjustments sitting as the Board of Appeals. 003 covers structures with buckling walls, undersized floor or roof loads, fire or wind damage, inadequate egress, or conditions unfit for human habitation, and also reaches any building that's unoccupied and unsecured enough to be entered by vagrants or children.

" Responsible parties get ten days from service to bring the property into compliance before the hearing. 008 hearing, the Board of Appeals can order repair, vacation or demolition within 30 days, extendable to 90 with a submitted work plan, and beyond 90 only with periodic progress reports. 009. 010 lets the council order the city to do the work at the owner's expense, assess a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per day, and record a lien against the land that accrues interest at ten percent a year, though a homestead lien can't be foreclosed against an owner 65 or older.