Warner Robins, GA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Article X of the building chapter, Secs. A. Secs. 41-2-5 through 41-2-17. The process starts when a public authority or at least five city residents file a written complaint with the public officer, defined by Sec. 6-344(b) as the code enforcement officers, city marshal, fire chief, police chief, and their designees. After investigating, the public officer can file an in rem complaint against the property and serve the owner and any parties in interest, triggering a court hearing held between fifteen and forty-five days later.

If the court finds the structure unfit for habitation, unfit for its current use, tied to drug crimes, or a danger to public health and safety, Sec. 6-344(d) requires it to order either repair, alteration or improvement, if that can be done at a reasonable cost relative to the structure's present value, or demolition and removal if it cannot. Owners who ignore a repair or demolition order lose control of the outcome: Sec. 6-344(e) lets the public officer have the work done directly, post a placard reading that the structure is unfit for habitation or occupancy, and collect the full cost as a lien against the property, filed with the Houston or Peach County clerk of superior court and collected by the county tax commissioner the same way as delinquent property taxes.

Separately, Sec. 6-348 lets the public officer condemn and placard individual unsafe structures or unsafe equipment, such as failing boilers or wiring, even outside the full in rem process, and Sec. 6-349 authorizes immediate emergency vacation orders when collapse or explosion risk is imminent.