Hamburg Village, NY Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)

Chapter 182 of the Village of Hamburg Code, adopted by the Board of Trustees on 6-15-1998 as L.L. No. 3-1998, is where the Village sets condition standards for buildings, including rentals. Section 182-5 applies Article II to residential, commercial, storage and industrial buildings, whether occupied or vacant, and accessory structures. Section 182-8B then requires exterior and interior surfaces, including foundations, roofs, floors, walls, ceilings, doors, windows and fixtures, to be maintained in a clean, safe and sanitary manner and free of substantial deterioration. Substantial deterioration is defined in § 182-8A as general dilapidation or specific instances of disrepair, including substantial conditions of peeling, chipping, cracking, splintering, fraying, warping, crumbling, rusting, corroding, rotting or perforation.

The landlord-specific language is § 182-8C: in leased premises where appliances or furnishings are supplied by the lessor, in whole or in part, the Subsection B standard applies to those items too. Exterior surfaces not inherently resistant to substantial deterioration must be periodically treated with a protective coating of paint or other suitable preservative when necessary (§ 182-8D(1)), and repair materials must be of like nature, grade and quality as the existing surface (§ 182-8D(2)).

Other Chapter 182 sections reach tenants and landlords. Section 182-9C requires screening of No. 15 mesh or finer on exterior ventilation openings in occupied rented dwelling units, up to and including the third story, from June 1 to October 1 in each year. Section 182-10 requires covered garbage containers in every dwelling, assigns owners of multiple dwellings the duty to provide receptacles, and bars storing garbage or rubbish in any public hall or stairway of a dwelling with two or more living units. Section 182-11 treats a building unoccupied for more than six months with broken, removed, boarded or sealed openings as an unoccupied hazard. This page covers the Code of the Village of Hamburg only, not the surrounding Town of Hamburg.