Albuquerque property owners must keep premises free of rodent harborage under the city Property Maintenance Code, with Environmental Health responding to complaints and issuing notices for unsanitary conditions.
Albuquerque Code Chapter 14 Article 3 (Uniform Housing Code) and Chapter 9 (Health and Sanitation) require property owners to maintain buildings, yards, and dumpsters free of conditions that harbor rats, mice, or other vermin. The city Environmental Health Department investigates complaints about commercial dumpster overflow, abandoned food sources, and burrow sites. Restaurants and food establishments must follow NMED Food Program pest-control standards. Property owners receiving a notice typically have 10–30 days to remediate before fines or summary abatement. Bernalillo County provides public-health support for trapping advice; rodenticide use is regulated under EPA and NM Department of Agriculture rules.
Failure to remediate rodent harborage after notice triggers civil fines, summary abatement with cost recovery as a property lien, and possible referral to NMED for food-establishment cases.
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