Woodbury, MN Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Section 6-201 states the article's policy directly: it is the policy of the city to enhance the supply of safe, sanitary and adequate property for its citizens and to prevent the deterioration of existing property in the city, and lists the prevention of blighted and deteriorated properties in the city among its explicit objectives, alongside preserving the value of land and buildings throughout the city. Section 6-202 carries that policy into enforceable text by adopting the 2006 ICC International Property Maintenance Code in its entirety, excluding only sections 103, 106, 107, and 111, and providing that where the local article and the 2006 IPMC conflict, the city's own article controls.

A copy of the adopted code is kept on file with the code official for public inspection. The code official, defined in section 6-203 as the community development director or a designated staff member, administers this article and can designate deputies to perform inspections. Section 6-206 makes any failure to comply with the article, and any failure to comply with a compliance order within its stated time, a violation, with each day of continuing violation treated as a separate offense. Section 6-207 backs that up with a choice of remedies: the city may issue an administrative citation resolved under chapter 26's administrative citations and civil penalties article, or pursue misdemeanor prosecution under state law, though not both for the same violation, and nothing in the article limits the city's access to injunctions, abatement procedures, or other civil remedies available under state law.