Property Maintenance in Minnesota (2026)

A building that's in danger of collapse, has loose exterior parts, or carries blistered and rotting siding is a…

Blaine City Code § 34-108 declares nine categories of blighted or unsanitary conditions to be public nuisances, from…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, a building with structural defects, fire or wind damage, or conditions unfit for human…

In the City of Coon Rapids, a damaged, decayed, dilapidated, unsanitary or unsafe building that endangers health or…

When Duluth's building official finds a structure so damaged that repair would cost more than 60 percent of its fair…

In the City of Eagan, the International Property Maintenance Code (2021 edition), as locally amended, governs…

Minneapolis can order a vacant building rehabilitated or demolished once it qualifies as a nuisance condition…

In unincorporated Stearns County, a structure damaged by fire, water, wind, decay or age that endangers public safety…

Washington County treats any structure that has become dangerous for further occupancy because of sanitary defects as a…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, a building or property that is a fire risk or a threat to public safety and…

In the City of Eden Prairie, City Code Section 9.16 declares any building, fence, or structure that is so poorly…

Hennepin County declares junk or rubbish accumulations and structures made dangerous by sanitary defects to be public…

City Code § 9-8-3 amends the International Property Maintenance Code to require every structure's exterior, foundation…

Maple Grove enforces the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code citywide, with the building official as code…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota (Hennepin County), a building or structure is a public nuisance if the city…

In the City of Plymouth, an unhealthy, dangerous, or unfinished structure is a declared public nuisance under City Code…

Rochester City Code § 8-3-2 declares a building, fence, or other structure a public nuisance if its exterior meets any…

Woodbury enforces blight and property deterioration through its Housing and Property Maintenance Code, which adopts the…

Owners of vacant lots must still control weeds and noxious plants. Minnesota's noxious-weed law obligates any landowner…

In the City of Blaine's business and industrial zoning districts, Section 113-24(c) requires every vacant lot or…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, § 97.20(C)(6) exempts vacant parcels larger than five acres from the general weed…

Dakota County has no countywide vacant-lot maintenance ordinance. Cities require owners to keep vacant lots free of…

In the City of Eagan, vacant lots and outlots smaller than one acre must be covered with turf grass or other permitted…

In the City of Eden Prairie, every lot or parcel of land, developed or vacant, other than land in the rural zoning…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-3 treats weeds or grass over eight inches (8") as a public…

Minneapolis bans weeds or grass over eight inches on any lot or parcel citywide, occupied or vacant, declaring…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, Minnetonka City Code § 845.030 caps turf grass lawns and weeds at eight inches on…

In the City of Plymouth, turf grass on any property, developed or vacant, cannot exceed eight inches, and noxious weeds…

Stearns County bans open accumulations of junk, debris and overgrown vegetation on unimproved property that harbor…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, the owner or occupant of real property must remove snow or ice from public…

In the City of Blaine, Minnesota, City Code § 70-2 gives property owners and occupants 48 hours after snow stops…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, § 96.28 makes every property owner or occupant responsible for keeping the public…

In the City of Coon Rapids, rental dwellings with four or more units must clear their own walkways, sidewalks and steps…

In the City of Duluth, anyone who owns, leases or occupies property abutting a public sidewalk must clear snow within…

Eagan doesn't fine residents simply for not shoveling, but City Code § 7.05, Subd. 7 makes it a public nuisance to…

In the City of Eden Prairie, City Code Section 6.21 gives owners and occupants of one- and two-family homes 24 hours…

Lakeville City Code § 7-3-8 requires property owners and occupants to clear snow and ice from sidewalks abutting their…

Minneapolis requires homeowners to clear sidewalk snow and ice within 24 hours of a snowfall ending; commercial and…

In the City of Plymouth, property owners and occupants must clear snow and ice from the public sidewalk abutting their…

Rochester property owners and occupants must clear snow, ice, dirt and rubbish from abutting public sidewalks and…

Saint Paul property owners and occupants have 24 hours after snow or ice stops falling to clear it from the public…

Woodbury requires property owners to clear snow, ice and rubbish from the public sidewalk in front of their property…