Pomona, CA Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)

Sec. 74-253 defines a substandard rental building as one where the owner has taken a state income-tax deduction for interest, taxes, depreciation or amortization and the building violates state law or city health, safety or building codes and has not been brought into compliance within six months after notice of code compliance is served. The building official examines every building reported as substandard (Sec. 74-254(a)) and, on finding a violation, mails the owner certified notice describing the violations and warning that failure to correct them within six months can mean loss of the California income tax exemption for the property; the building official may extend that six-month window on a showing of good-faith compliance efforts (Sec.

74-254(b)). If the owner still has not complied, the building official mails a notice of noncompliance advising of an intent to notify the Franchise Tax Board after ten days unless the owner appeals (Sec. 74-255). An owner has ten days to file a written appeal, heard the same way as dangerous-building abatement appeals under Sections 74-183 through 74-191 (Sec. 74-256). Sec. 74-257 exempts an owner from the Franchise Tax Board referral if the substandard condition came solely from an earthquake, flood or other natural disaster corrected within three years, if financing to fix the property has been secured and repairs have begun, or if financing was denied solely because of the property's location in an underserved neighborhood. Owners who sell or transfer a noncompliant property must immediately notify the city of the buyer's name and address (Sec. 74-258).