Gretna, LA Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)

" That single sentence pulls the IPMC's minimum habitability requirements, covering structural maintenance, sanitation, light, ventilation, and occupancy limits, directly into Gretna's own code, and the building official who enforces Chapter 10 under § 10-1 applies it to any residential or rental structure in the city. Gretna backs the IPMC with its own nuisance-style maintenance rule at § 24-56, "Premises maintained in prohibited manner," which separately bars maintaining a building, yard, or open area so as to produce noxious odors (subsection (a)), maintaining it in a condition detrimental to the health of owners, occupants, neighbors, or the public (subsection (b)), or neglecting a structure so that lack of repair will result in its demolition or deterioration through exposure to the elements (subsection (c)).

Under § 24-56(d), any of those conditions must be corrected within ten days after notice from the department of inspections, giving a landlord a fixed cure period before further enforcement. Together, the two sections mean a Gretna rental unit is held to both the adopted IPMC's technical maintenance code and this city-specific ten-day abatement clock for nuisance-level neglect, with the building official and code enforcement officer (Ch. 24) as the enforcing agencies and Gretna's Mayor's Court as the forum for any citation that follows.