Ulster County, NY Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

An unsafe building or structure is one that is found to be dangerous to the life, health, property, or safety of the public or the occupants of the building or structure by not providing minimum safeguards to protect or warn occupants in the event of fire, or because such building or structure contains unsafe equipment or is so damaged, decayed, dilapidated, structurally unsafe, or of such faulty construction or unstable foundation that partial or complete collapse is possible. Buildings or structures which may be unsafe include but are not limited to the following:

(a) Those whose interior walls or other vertical structural members list, lean or buckle to such an extent that a plumb line passing through the center of gravity falls outside of the middle third of its base.

(b) Those which, exclusive of the foundation, show 33% or more of damage or deterioration of the supporting member or members or 50% of damage or deterioration of the nonsupporting enclosing or outside walls or covering.

(c) Those which have improperly distributed loads upon the floors or roofs or in which the same are overloaded or which have insufficient strength to be reasonably safe for the purpose used.

(d) Those which have been damaged by fire, wind, or other causes so as to have become dangerous to life, safety or the general health and welfare of the occupants or the people of the County.

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