Property Maintenance
Property Maintenance Information
The International Property Maintenance Code is a model code that regulates the minimum maintenance requirements for existing buildings and exterior property areas. The responsibility for maintenance and upkeep falls on the owners, operators, and occupants of the property. The Property Maintenance Code provides requirements that are intended to maintain a minimum level of safety and sanitation for both the general public and the occupants of a structure, and to maintain a building’s structural and weather-resistance performance.
The International Property Maintenance Code provides specific criteria for regulating the installation and maintenance of specific building components; maintenance requirements for vacant structures and land; requirements regulating the safety, sanitation and appearance of the interior and exterior of structures and all exterior property areas; accessory structures; vehicle storage regulations and establishes who is responsible for complying with the chapter’s provisions. The Property Maintenance Code also contains the requirements for swimming pools, spas and hot tubs and the requirements for protective barriers and gates in these barriers. In addition, the Code establishes the responsible parties for exterminating insects and rodents, and maintaining sanitary conditions in all types of occupancies.
The purpose of the Property Maintenance Program is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public by requiring existing structures and premises to comply with the provisions of the Property Maintenance Code and if such structures or premises do not comply, the structure or premises shall be required to be altered or repaired to provide a minimum level of health and safety as required by the Code.
Property Maintenance Complaint Form- Please complete the applicable fields of the Property Maintenance Complaint form in their entirety.
- Property Maintenance Complaint Form
- Be sure to include your name, address and phone number and or an email address.
- Be sure to include the Location of the Property in question.
- Be sure to include an explanation or list of concerns. Please be specific.
- Be sure to indicate on the form by circling yes or no, whether or not Township personnel may enter your property to observe the alleged violation.
It is not accurate or efficient for Township personnel to properly convey your specific concerns to the property maintenance official regarding another person’s property. Things reported over the phone can be misinterpreted or misconstrued and or items could unintentionally be left out from the complaint. It is important that the complainant convey your specific concerns in your own words on the Property Maintenance Complaint Form. The form creates a record that the complaint was officially filed and establishes the potential investigations initial information.
Contact information is required should the Code official need additional information, need to follow up with the complainant, and to check for status updates in certain circumstances where violations are not visible from public areas etc.
A form is considered incomplete if it does not contain all of the information required above. The property maintenance program should not be abused by residents otherwise involved in property disputes with neighbors as a way of retaliation. All complaints shall be legitimate code related complaints. Falsification of information or incomplete complaint forms may be rejected.
All complaint forms remain anonymous to the general public. It is possible in certain situations your testimony may be required in court; however, that circumstance is rare and only requested when absolutely necessary.
For additional information regarding the International Code Council’s International Property Maintenance Code, please visit https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPMC2018