Brooklyn Park, MN Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)
Key Facts
- Who inspects
- City Manager or designated agents
- First inspection fee
- None; first reinspection also free
- Entry refused
- City may seek a court order
- Conversion inspection
- Required when a unit becomes a rental
- Refusing entry risk
- License revocation or suspension
Summary
Brooklyn Park's City Manager and designated agents can enter and inspect any rental dwelling to enforce the property maintenance code under § 117.52(C), with no fee for the first inspection or the first reinspection to check a corrected violation. Refusing entry can bring a court order, and unpaid fees put the rental license itself at risk.
(C) Inspections and investigations. (1) The City Manager is authorized to make inspections and to take any other action reasonably necessary to enforce this subchapter. (2) All designated agents authorized to inspect have the authority to enter, at all reasonable times, any rental dwelling. Prior to entering a rental dwelling, the designated agent must first present proper credentials and request entry. ... (4) There is no fee charged for an initial inspection to determine the existence of a housing maintenance code violation, nor any fee for the first reinspection to determine compliance with an order to correct a housing maintenance code violation.
Full Breakdown
52(B), every licensed rental dwelling in Brooklyn Park must meet the standards of the city's property maintenance code in Chapter 106, on top of any other city ordinance or special permit condition. 52(C) authorizes the City Manager to make inspections and take any action reasonably necessary to enforce the rental subchapter, and lets designated agents enter a rental dwelling at all reasonable times after presenting credentials and requesting entry. If an owner, operator or occupant refuses access, the agent can petition a court for an order compelling entry upon a showing of probable cause.
00 of the International Property Maintenance Code. The first inspection to determine whether a housing maintenance violation exists, and the first reinspection to confirm it was corrected, carry no fee; every subsequent reinspection after the compliance due date is billed to the owner or operator at a rate the Council sets by resolution, and every notice of violation must spell out that reinspection fee policy. 485: whenever a dwelling converts to a licensed rental, it must be inspected against the minimum standards before licensing, with its own conversion fee, though that requirement does not reach buildings of more than two units. 52(D), separate from any code violation the inspection turned up.
Violations & Fines
Refusing to allow an authorized inspection of a rental dwelling is grounds for the City Manager to revoke, suspend, deny or decline to renew the rental license under § 117.52(D)(1)(d), and the city can obtain a court order compelling entry when access is denied. Unpaid reinspection or conversion-inspection fees carry the same license consequences, alongside any misdemeanor penalty available under § 10.99.
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