Property Maintenance in Minnesota (2026)
17 rules on the books across Minnesota, 10 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Property Blight
Standards for property appearance including peeling paint, broken windows, junk accumulation, and other conditions the city considers blight.
Saint Paul
Heavy RestrictionsA building that's in danger of collapse, has loose exterior parts, or carries blistered and rotting siding is a…
Read full rule →Minneapolis
Significant RestrictionsMinneapolis can order a vacant building rehabilitated or demolished once it qualifies as a nuisance condition…
Read full rule →Stearns County
Significant RestrictionsIn unincorporated Stearns County, a structure damaged by fire, water, wind, decay or age that endangers public safety…
Read full rule →Washington County
Significant RestrictionsWashington County treats any structure that has become dangerous for further occupancy because of sanitary defects as a…
Read full rule →Anoka County
Some RestrictionsMinnesota cities, not the county, regulate blight. Blaine and Coon Rapids adopt property-maintenance codes requiring…
Read full rule →Hennepin County
Some RestrictionsHennepin County declares junk or rubbish accumulations and structures made dangerous by sanitary defects to be public…
Read full rule →Maple Grove
Some RestrictionsMaple Grove enforces the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code citywide, with the building official as code…
Read full rule →Rochester
Some RestrictionsRochester City Code § 8-3-2 declares a building, fence, or other structure a public nuisance if its exterior meets any…
Read full rule →Woodbury
Some RestrictionsWoodbury enforces blight and property deterioration through its Housing and Property Maintenance Code, which adopts the…
Read full rule →Vacant Lot Maintenance
Requirements for maintaining vacant or undeveloped land, including mowing, fencing, and preventing dumping and trespassing.
Anoka County
Some RestrictionsOwners of vacant lots must still control weeds and noxious plants. Minnesota's noxious-weed law obligates any landowner…
Read full rule →Dakota County
Some RestrictionsDakota County has no countywide vacant-lot maintenance ordinance. Cities require owners to keep vacant lots free of…
Read full rule →Minneapolis
Some RestrictionsMinneapolis bans weeds or grass over eight inches on any lot or parcel citywide, occupied or vacant, declaring…
Read full rule →Stearns County
Some RestrictionsStearns County bans open accumulations of junk, debris and overgrown vegetation on unimproved property that harbor…
Read full rule →Snow & Sidewalk Clearing
Your responsibility to clear snow and ice from sidewalks next to your property, including deadlines after a snowfall and penalties for not clearing.
Minneapolis
Some RestrictionsMinneapolis requires homeowners to clear sidewalk snow and ice within 24 hours of a snowfall ending; commercial and…
Read full rule →Rochester
Some RestrictionsRochester property owners and occupants must clear snow, ice, dirt and rubbish from abutting public sidewalks and…
Read full rule →Saint Paul
Some RestrictionsSaint Paul property owners and occupants have 24 hours after snow or ice stops falling to clear it from the public…
Read full rule →Woodbury
Some RestrictionsWoodbury requires property owners to clear snow, ice and rubbish from the public sidewalk in front of their property…
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