Eagan, MN Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)

Section 6.55, Subd. 15 conditions every rental dwelling license on compliance with 'all city regulations in this Code, and all applicable state and federal laws.' It names six specific chapters whose violation is also a license violation: the Minnesota building and fire codes (Chapters 4 and 10), the zoning/land use code (Chapter 11), animal regulations, fire prevention rules, public protection and crimes provisions, and the International Property Maintenance Code, all in Chapter 10. Any breach of those chapters at a licensed rental must be abated under the City Code's public nuisance chapter, layering nuisance abatement on top of the rental license's own enforcement track.

Subd. 15(B) authorizes the building official, fire chief and police chief, or their designees, to inspect licensed rental dwellings at reasonable times, including units that are vacant and unrented, to check compliance. The city notifies the licensee to schedule an inspection, but the licensee must coordinate with tenants; tenants must get at least 24 hours' notice and the licensee must ensure access, or risk a reinspection fee unless a tenant simply refuses despite the owner's cooperation. Subd. 15(C) also makes the licensee responsible for solid waste and recycling service at the property.

Because maintenance failures feed into Subd. 16's grounds for license action, two or more uncorrected maintenance violations within a license term, or four or more within 36 months, can lead the community development director or city council to deny, suspend or revoke the license itself.