Menifee, CA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- MMC § 8.18.020
- Base code adopted
- 1997 Uniform Housing Code
- Controlling state law
- Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17920.3 et seq.
- Adoption ordinance
- Ord. 2016-205, passed 11-16-2016
- Applies to
- Residential structures
Summary
Menifee enforces substandard residential buildings under the 1997 Uniform Housing Code, but state law controls: California's State Housing Law overrides the local Housing Code wherever the two conflict on residential structures.
Chapter 10, Section 1001.1 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to the end of the section to read as follows: With respect to residential structures, California Health & Safety Code Division 13, Part 1.5, Section 17920.3, et seq. (known as the "State Housing Law") supersedes the applicability of the Uniform Housing Code to the degree that any conflict between the State Housing Law and the Menifee Housing Code exists.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-15: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance 2026-432, passed 4-15-2026).
Full Breakdown
010 adopts by reference the 1997 Uniform Housing Code, published by the International Conference of Building Officials, as the Menifee Housing Code, referencing its origin in the State Housing Law found at California Code of Regulations Title 25, Division 1. , the State Housing Law, supersedes the Uniform Housing Code wherever the two disagree. In practice this means Menifee's code enforcement staff evaluate a residential structure's habitability and safety defects, things like inadequate sanitation, structural hazards, faulty weather protection, and inadequate plumbing or electrical systems, against the state's substandard-building criteria rather than the older Uniform Housing Code text where the two diverge.
This local amendment has stood unchanged since the Housing Code chapter was first adopted with Ordinance 2016-205 in November 2016; unlike the building, electrical, plumbing, and green codes in the same title, it has not been updated to a newer edition year since then.
Violations & Fines
A building found substandard under this framework is subject to the general Title 1 penalty scheme: Section 1.01.200 makes a code violation a misdemeanor punishable by up to $1,000 and six months in jail by default, or an infraction with escalating $100 to $500 fines for repeat violations within a year, and each day the substandard condition continues is treated as a separate offense, giving the city daily leverage to compel repairs or abatement.
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