Pico Rivera, CA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Section 8.16.010 sets minimum property maintenance standards intended to protect the livability, appearance, and social and economic stability of the city, declaring that deteriorating buildings, overgrown vegetation, and damaged property are injurious to public health, safety and welfare. Under subsection A.2, all structures must be maintained in a structurally sound, safe manner with a clean, orderly appearance, and physical damage such as broken windows or doors, a leaking roof, or peeling paint must be repaired as soon as possible. Subsection C separately lists conditions affecting structures and structural components that are deemed nuisances outright, including, at C.13, any building, facility, equipment, device or structure in a condition that constitutes a substandard, dangerous condition as defined in the Pico Rivera Building Code.

Other listed nuisances in the same subsection include buildings boarded up for six months or longer, unoccupied buildings left unsecured, and buildings partially destroyed, damaged, vacant or abandoned for more than six months. Because Title 8 offenses fall under Section 8.16.220's list of chapters subject to administrative penalty, code enforcement can pursue a blighted property through Section 8.16.230 rather than only through criminal prosecution: an enforcement officer issues an administrative citation, the penalty is payable directly to the city treasurer, and a schedule of penalties is set by city council resolution, with each day a violation continues treated as a separate offense under Section 8.16.230(E).