Peoria, AZ Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Peoria City Code § 18-4, IPMC § 602
- Required temperature range
- 70°F to 90°F
- Measured at
- 3 feet above floor
- Portable heaters/coolers
- Do not satisfy requirement
- Enforcing office
- Code Enforcement
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 2021-11, 4-20-21
Summary
Peoria's amended International Property Maintenance Code, City Code § 18-4, requires every rental structure's habitable spaces to have heating and cooling systems capable of holding the indoor temperature between 70°F and 90°F at three feet above the floor. Portable space heaters or coolers cannot be used to satisfy the requirement.
SECTION 602 HEATING AND COOLING FACILITIES 602.1 Facilities required. Heating and cooling facilities shall be provided in structures as required by this section. 602.2 Heating and cooling systems. Habitable spaces shall be provided with active or passive space-heating and space cooling systems capable of maintaining temperatures between 70°F (21°C) and 90°F (32°C) at a point 3 feet (914 mm) above the floor. The installation of portable space heaters or coolers shall not be used to achieve compliance with this section.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-9: Supplement contains: LLocal legislation current through Ord. 2026-15, passed 6-16-26).
Full Breakdown
Section 18-4 adopts the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code and then rewrites its heating chapter specifically for Peoria. 2 sets the numeric standard: habitable spaces must have active or passive space-heating and space-cooling systems capable of maintaining a temperature between 70°F (21°C) and 90°F (32°C), measured three feet above the floor. The ordinance closes the obvious workaround by name: installing a portable space heater or a portable air conditioner does not satisfy the requirement, only a fixed system counts. 2. 1 lets the code official condemn a structure found unsafe or unfit for human occupancy.
The heating and cooling standard traces to Ordinance No. 2021-11, adopted April 20, 2021, the most recent amendment layered onto a chain of adoptions running back to a 1988 edition first adopted by Ordinance No. 90-33.
Violations & Fines
A rental unit that can't hold 70-90°F in habitable rooms, or that relies on portable heaters or window-unit air conditioners instead of a fixed system, is a Property Maintenance Code violation that Code Enforcement can act on under Section 108, up to condemning the structure as unsafe or unfit for occupancy. Code-wide, an unspecified Property Maintenance Code violation defaults to the general Class One misdemeanor penalty in Section 1-5: up to a $2,500 fine and six months in jail.
Frequently Asked Questions
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