Enforces City and State-mandated codes relating to residential and commercial structures that are dangerous, substandard, blighted, or vacant. The division also enforces codes related to pests and mechanical noise through the environmental health section.
Common complaints are:

• Ceilings, roofs, vertical supports, or other horizontal supports that sag, split, or buckle
• Plumbing, electrical, or mechanical hazards that create a danger to human health
• Excessive infestations of rodents, cockroaches, or other vector violations. This does not include bedbug infestations.
• Unsafe electrical outlets that present a clear and present danger of fire or electrocution
• Uninhabitable buildings due to a lack of care, cleanliness, or sanitary conditions
• Defective or inadequate weather protection of exterior walls

Use the Online Form to report a vacant structure that is a blight, conditions that violate the safety and habitability of a building, and residential vermin or other pest infestations