Omaha, NE Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

Under Omaha Municipal Code §§ 48-201: 48-209, every residential rental property in the city and its three-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction must be registered with the permits and inspections division before being leased. Properties with an unresolved code violation, or that miss registration, go on the annual inspection list and are inspected every year by the code official; all other registered properties fall onto a ten-year inspection list instead. For multi-family buildings, the code official inspects a 15-percent sample of units, expanding to every unit if more than 20 percent of that sample has violations. Inspections require 14 days' written notice, and owners pay $125 per unit for each inspection.