Spring Hill, TN Rental Property Rules: Repairs & Habitability (2026)

Section 13-101 sets the purpose: regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures, including standards for supplied utilities and facilities, conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use, the condemnation of buildings unfit for human occupancy, and the demolition of such existing structures. The city does not adopt the model code whole. Section 13-102(B) excludes IPMC Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7, IPMC Section 111, Section 304.14, Sections 304.18.1 through 304.18.3 and Section 305.

Section 13-102(A) makes the Building Inspector the responsible official for enforcement. The adopted standards apply to property in the city without a rental carve-out, so the same Property Maintenance Code governs a leased unit and an owner-occupied house. Under IPMC Section 106.2 as amended, the code official serves a notice of violation that gives the offender ten days to remedy the violation, and the official has authority to grant extensions based on his judgment of the situation. Section 13-104 puts a copy of the adopted code on file in the City Recorder's office for public inspection.

Rooming and boarding houses carry their own standards. For any building housing more than two occupants this way, § 13-302 requires 70 square feet of floor space for a room occupied by one person and 50 additional square feet for each additional person, one bathroom for each four sleeping rooms, a window opening directly to the outdoors with an area of at least 8% of the room's floor area, no more than 30 feet of travel to an exit, and ceilings at least seven feet high. Section 13-303 requires a license from the Building Inspector, and § 13-306 sets a $50 permit fee.