Maple Grove, MN Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopted code
- Adopts 2018 International Property Maintenance Code
- Enforced by
- Building official serves as code official
- Heat standard
- 68°F minimum heat required year-round
- Conflicts
- More restrictive provision governs in conflicts
Summary
Maple Grove enforces the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code citywide, with the building official as code official for substandard and unsafe structures.
There is adopted as the property maintenance code of the city the International Property Maintenance Code, 2018 edition, as published by the International Code Council. A copy of the document shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk.
(1) Each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of the adopted code are referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in this section.
(2) When there is any conflict between the provisions of the adopted code and any other applicable code or ordinance enforced by the city, the more restrictive provision shall apply. Where the conflict involves definitions and neither is necessarily more restrictive than the other, the definition set forth in the code or ordinance which more particularly addresses the subject at hand shall apply.
(3) The adopted code is amended and revised in the following respects:
a.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 6 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
The city adopts the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code, administered by the building official as "code official," to regulate substandard and unsafe structures citywide. Local amendments set a year-round minimum heating standard of 68 degrees Fahrenheit in habitable rooms (amended Sec. 602.2) and reduce a guardrail-opening standard to 18 inches (amended Sec. 303.2). Where the adopted code conflicts with another city ordinance, the more restrictive provision controls.
Violations & Fines
The adopted code's own penalties, conditions, and enforcement terms are incorporated in full under Sec. 8-90(a)(1), giving the building official authority to order compliance or repair on substandard properties.
Frequently Asked Questions
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