Apple Valley, CA Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing chapter
- Municipal Code Ch. 8.34, Rental Housing Units
- Enforcing officer
- Town Manager or designee
- Structural code
- 2024 IPMC adopted by Ord. 573
- Misdemeanor penalty
- Up to $1,000 fine or 6 months jail
- Infraction fines
- $100 first, $200 second, $500 third
Summary
Apple Valley requires every rental housing unit in town to meet a Town-enforced maintenance, sanitation, ventilation and safety standard under Municipal Code Chapter 8.34, backed by the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code adopted in Chapter 8.28. The Town Manager enforces the standard, and landlords who fail to maintain compliant conditions risk revocation of the property maintenance certificate required to keep tenants in the unit.
It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to establish a standard of maintenance for all rental housing units in the Town of Apple Valley; to provide for a system of continued regulation for the maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, use, occupancy, and safety of rental housing units within the Town of Apple Valley.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 19 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
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Violations & Fines
Violating the rental maintenance standard is enforced under Municipal Code §§ 1.01.200-1.01.260: a misdemeanor carries up to a $1,000 fine and six months in San Bernardino County jail, or the Town Attorney may reduce a citation to an infraction ($100 first offense, $200 second, $500 third within a year). Unmaintained rental conditions can also be declared a public nuisance and summarily abated at the owner's expense.
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Sources & Official References
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