Logan, UT Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Chapter 15.20 of the Logan Municipal Code is the city's dangerous and substandard building tool. Section 15.20.010 adopts the entire current edition of the international property maintenance code, promulgated by the International Code Council, and makes it controlling within the corporate limits of the city. The remedy is cumulative with the building code and any other remedy available by law, and it reaches buildings or structures that from any cause endanger the life, limb, health, sanitation, property, safety or welfare of the general public or their occupants. Those buildings can be required to be repaired, vacated or demolished. Under 15.20.020, the word jurisdiction in the international code means the city of Logan, Utah.

Logan edits the model code locally. Section 302.4 is revised to insert six inches as the weed and plant growth limit, and the chapter lists where it applies: lots in a platted subdivision, vacant lots within platted residential subdivisions where buildings stand on 50 percent or more of the lots, parkstrip areas, and parcels along improved streets in common usage, to a depth of 200 feet or the depth of the ownership, whichever is less. Agricultural land, flower gardens, shrubbery, vegetable gardens, city parks, trails and open space, naturally wooded areas, regulated wetlands and designated undeveloped open space are excluded.

Section 15.20.030 ties the code to Utah statutes that authorize cities to abate dangerous buildings, so Logan is not required to follow a more restrictive procedure than state law sets out. The city can attach the costs of abating a dangerous building to the property taxes as provided by state statute. Owners who disagree with a building official's order or determination file a written petition with the building inspection division and pay the fee set by resolution, as 15.22.010 provides. Vacant structures that fall into disrepair are also covered by the separate vacant building registration in chapter 15.28.