Prince George's County, MD Rental Inspections: Tenant Complaint Process (2026)

Sec. 13-110 rewrites Section 104 of the adopted Property Maintenance Code to define how a tenant complaint reaches an inspection. 3 states inspections shall be made in response to citizen or official complaints or other reliable information or allegations of existing violations of the Code, and requires every inspection report to be in writing and certified by the inspecting officer. 1, added by Sec. 13-110(b), imposes a mandatory cycle: rental housing with 10 or more units that is over 20 years old must be inspected every three years, as must any 10-plus-unit property receiving a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement.

If a municipality inside the County already runs its own rental inspection program for those buildings, it must forward violation results to DPIE's Code Official within 30 days, and DPIE can skip its own three-year cycle if the municipality's inspection covers the same timeframe. 4 gives the Code Official a right of entry at reasonable times to inspect, though normal inspections still require permission or a warrant; only a genuine emergency threatening life, property, or public safety lets the Code Official enter without either. 4 states those shall be processed without the necessity for obtaining permission or a judicial warrant, and refusing entry for one is itself grounds to deny or revoke the license or permit.

8 requires multiple County inspectors working the same property to coordinate so tenants and owners face a single set of orders rather than conflicting ones from different departments.