Property Maintenance in Nebraska (2026)

7 rules on the books across Nebraska, 3 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.

Lincoln enforces property maintenance through nuisance abatement ordinances in the Lincoln Municipal Code. Properties…

Omaha gives owners 90 days to fix a cited property-code violation before it becomes a prosecutable misdemeanor, with…

Requirements for maintaining vacant or undeveloped land, including mowing, fencing, and preventing dumping and trespassing.

Lincoln requires owners of vacant lots to maintain them free of tall weeds, overgrown vegetation, debris, and trash…

Owners of vacant and occupied lots in Omaha must keep grass, weeds and nuisance vegetation under 12 inches tall or face…

Owners of vacant lots in unincorporated Sarpy County must control noxious weeds under state law, enforced by the county…

Your responsibility to clear snow and ice from sidewalks next to your property, including deadlines after a snowfall and penalties for not clearing.

Lincoln requires property owners to clear sidewalk snow and ice by 9:00 a.m. the morning after a snowstorm; failure is…

Owners and occupants must clear ice and snow from sidewalks within 24 hours after the city declares major-street snow…