Noblesville, IN Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Section 93.35 establishes the "City of Noblesville Unsafe Structures law" and incorporates I.C. 36-7-9-1 through 36-7-9-28 by reference, with the state statute controlling if the two conflict. Under § 93.35(C), "all structures or parts of structures within the boundaries of the city which are determined by the Director of the Planning Department to be unsafe, as defined by this section, are declared to be public nuisances and shall be abated by repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal." The Planning Department Director administers the process, and § 93.35 also folds in the state statute's definitions of an "unsafe building" (I.C.

36-7-9-4) and "substantial property interest" (I.C. 36-7-9-2) as if copied into the city code in full. Section 93.35(G) requires that any reconstruction, repair or demolition ordered under the section be done in a good workmanlike manner according to accepted trade standards, measured against the Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission's building-law standards. Section 93.35(H) makes it unlawful for any owner, lessee, sublessee or occupant to alter, repair, demolish, use, occupy or maintain a structure contrary to a Planning Department order or any subsection of § 93.35, and sets the penalty: "a Class C Infraction for each day such violation occurs," so noncompliance accrues a separate offense every day the unsafe condition or the order violation persists.

Section 93.35(I) designates the Planning Department, under Common Council authority, as the department that administers both the local ordinance and the underlying state statute for every unsafe-structure case in the city.