94 local rules on file · Pop. 582 · Cumberland County
Showing ordinances that apply to Casco, ME
Casco is an unincorporated community with a population of approximately 582 in Cumberland County, Maine. Because Casco is not an incorporated city, it does not have its own municipal government or city code. Instead, Cumberland County ordinances apply directly to residential and commercial properties here. The rules below are the county-level regulations that govern your area. Nearby incorporated cities in Cumberland County may have different rules.
Cumberland County does not publish a county code and has no county-level quiet-hours rule. Quiet hours in Cumberland County are set by each of its 28 municipalities (Portland, South…
Cumberland County has no leaf-blower ordinance and no county code of ordinances at all. Any restriction on leaf-blower hours, decibel limits, or gas-versus-electric use is set by…
Cumberland County does not regulate amplified music. Amplified-sound permits, decibel caps, and outdoor-music windows are set by each of the 28 municipalities. Statewide, 17-A MRS §…
Cumberland County does not set decibel limits. Numeric dB(A) caps exist only in municipal codes within the County (Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, etc.). Statewide there is no…
Cumberland County does not regulate construction hours. Each of the 28 municipalities sets its own permitted construction window by ordinance under 30-A MRS § 3001 home-rule authority…
Cumberland County has no barking-dog ordinance. Maine law at 7 MRS § 3950 lets each of the county's 28 municipalities adopt or retain more stringent barking-dog rules, but explicitly…
Cumberland County has no amplified-sound or outdoor-music ordinance. Outdoor concerts, bar patios, and amplified events are regulated by each municipality's noise/special-event code…
Cumberland County has no aircraft-noise ordinance. Aircraft operation noise is exclusively federally preempted by the FAA under 49 U.S.C. § 40103, with Portland International Jetport…
Cumberland County has no industrial-noise ordinance. Industrial and stationary-source noise is regulated by municipal performance standards in each of the 28 cities and towns under…
Cumberland County has no vehicle-noise ordinance. Vehicle exhaust and muffler noise is regulated statewide by the Maine Motor Vehicle Inspection Manual under Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 29-A §…
Maine does not designate statutory wildfire zones the way California (Cal Fire FHSZ) or Colorado do. The Maine Forest Service publishes a daily Fire Danger Class (Low through Extreme)…
All outdoor burning in Cumberland County requires a permit from the town forest fire warden or Maine Forest Service ranger under 12 MRS § 9324 — except small (≤ 3 ft) recreational…
Propane storage in Cumberland County is governed by the Maine State Fire Marshal's adopted NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code (2020 edition) under 25 MRS § 2452, applied statewide…
Maine has no statewide WUI (wildland-urban interface) defensible-space mandate comparable to California PRC 4291, and Cumberland County does not impose a brush-clearance ordinance…
Cumberland County has no county-level fire pit ordinance — fire pits in Cumberland County's 28 municipalities are governed by Maine state law (12 MRS §§ 9322, 9325) plus each…
Consumer fireworks are lawful for adults 21+ statewide under 8 MRS §§ 221-A and 223-A but several Cumberland County municipalities (Portland, South Portland, Brunswick, Scarborough…
Cumberland County does not maintain an STR registry. The only Maine-wide registration that always applies to a vacation rental is Maine Revenue Services sales-tax registration for the…
Cumberland County has no rule restricting short-term rentals to a host's primary residence and Maine state law imposes no such requirement. Whether you can run an STR in a…
Cumberland County imposes no annual cap on the number of nights a short-term rental may operate. Maine state law sets none either. Where night caps exist in this region, they are set…
Cumberland County, Maine does not issue short-term rental (STR) permits and has no county vacation-rental ordinance. Under 30-A MRS § 3001 (home rule), the legal authority to require…
Cumberland County has no extended home-share ordinance. Under Maine state law, a rental of 28 or more consecutive days to the same occupant is treated as a long-term residential…
Cumberland County imposes no parking requirements on short-term rentals because the county adopts no zoning code. Off-street parking minimums and on-street restrictions are set at the…
Cumberland County does not require an STR host to be physically on-site during a guest stay, and Maine state law imposes no host-presence rule. The matter is left to each Cumberland…
Cumberland County has no county-level noise ordinance applicable to short-term rentals. STR noise is governed by (1) Maine's disorderly-conduct statute Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 17-A §501-A…
Cumberland County has no county-level short-term-rental tax or registration fee. Maine imposes a statewide 9% sales tax on the rental of living quarters under Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 36…
Cumberland County imposes no STR occupancy cap because the county adopts no zoning or housing code. The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC) under Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 25…
Cumberland County does not require short-term-rental hosts to carry commercial liability insurance, because the county imposes no STR licensing program. Maine has no statewide…
Cumberland County does not regulate residential driveways. Driveway location, width, sight distance, and access to a state highway are controlled by Maine DOT under Title 23 MRS § 1851…
Cumberland County does not mandate or regulate electric-vehicle charging stations. Public-charging deployment is supported through Efficiency Maine programs and federal NEVI funds…
Cumberland County, Maine does not adopt parking ordinances. Recreational vehicle and boat/trailer storage on private property is governed by the parking, zoning, and shoreland rules of…
Cumberland County does not adopt or enforce a street-parking code. On-street parking on public ways within the county is governed by Maine state law (29-A MRS § 2068) and by the…
Cumberland County does not impose an overnight-parking ban on public streets. Each of the county's 28 municipalities sets its own winter parking ban (typically November 1 – April 15 or…
Cumberland County has no abandoned-vehicle ordinance. Maine state law (29-A MRS § 1854) sets the statewide procedure: anyone in possession of an abandoned or unclaimed vehicle must…
Cumberland County has no commercial vehicle parking ordinance. Restrictions on parking semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, box trucks, and other commercial vehicles in residential zones…
Maine retains a 19th-century fence-viewer system: 30-A MRS Chapter 207 (§§ 2951–2960) lets adjoining owners compel cost-sharing of a partition fence, and 17 MRS § 2801 makes a…
Cumberland County does not issue building permits. Retaining walls are regulated municipally through the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC, 25 MRS § 2451), which adopts the…
Cumberland County does not regulate pool barriers. Statewide, residential pool barriers are enforced municipally through MUBEC's adoption of the 2021 IRC Appendix G (48-inch barrier…
Cumberland County does not adopt a county fence-height ordinance. Maine state law sets a 6-foot trigger for the spite-fence nuisance statute (17 MRS § 2801), and each of the 28…
Cumberland County does not regulate fence materials. Maine's statewide 'legal fence' definition (30-A MRS § 2951) lists rails, timber, stone walls, iron, wire, and natural equivalents…
Residential hot tubs in Cumberland County are regulated by the 2021 IRC (Appendix G) under MUBEC: a locking ANSI/ASTM F 1346 safety cover satisfies the barrier requirement, no…
Public pools, spas, and hot tubs in Cumberland County (hotel, motel, condo, club, campground, camp) must hold an annual DHHS license under 22 MRS Ch. 562 and meet the Maine Health…
Cumberland County issues no building permits and has no county pool ordinance. Residential pools are permitted by the local municipality (Portland, South Portland, Scarborough, etc.)…
Cumberland County has no county fencing rule. Residential pool barriers in every Cumberland County municipality are governed by the 2021 IRC (Section R326 and Appendix G) adopted as…
Above-ground pools holding more than 24 inches of water are treated the same as in-ground pools under the 2021 IRC adopted by MUBEC: a municipal building permit and an Appendix G…
Cumberland County does not regulate beekeeping. All beekeepers in Maine, including those in Cumberland County, must register their hives annually with the Maine Department of…
Cumberland County does not adopt subject-matter ordinances and has no county zoning code; chicken and livestock keeping in unincorporated areas does not exist because all of Cumberland…
Cumberland County does not enact an animal-hoarding ordinance. Hoarding situations are prosecuted under 17-A MRS § 1031 (cruelty to animals) when an owner deprives animals of necessary…
Maine state law expressly preempts breed-specific dog ordinances under 7 MRS § 3950. No Cumberland County municipality may ban or restrict pit bulls, Rottweilers, or any other breed…
Cumberland County does not adopt or publish a county animal-control code. The operative restraint rule countywide is the Maine state at-large prohibition in 7 MRS § 3911, enforced by…
Cumberland County has no exotic-pet ordinance. Maine state law (12 MRS § 12152) generally prohibits importing or possessing wildlife in Maine without a permit from the Department of…
Cumberland County does not regulate wildlife feeding. State law (Maine Title 12 and MDIFW rules administered by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife) governs feeding and…
Cumberland County does not require native plantings. Within the 250-ft shoreland zone (38 MRS § 435 et seq.), municipalities must enforce vegetation-retention standards that favor…
Rainwater harvesting is fully legal throughout Maine and Cumberland County. Maine has no statute restricting rainwater capture (unlike some western states), and Cumberland County…
Cumberland County does not adopt a code of ordinances and has no grass-height or tall-weeds rule. Grass-height enforcement is a municipal matter under 30-A MRS § 3001 home-rule…
Cumberland County does not regulate outdoor water use. The Portland Water District (PWD), a quasi-municipal utility chartered under PL 1975 ch. 477 (Private and Special Laws), supplies…
Cumberland County does not enforce a noxious-weed or vegetation-control ordinance. State-level invasive-plant control is administered by the Maine Department of Agriculture…
Cumberland County has no tree-trimming or tree-protection ordinance of its own. Tree cutting in Cumberland County is governed by (1) the mandatory Shoreland Zoning Act, 38 MRS § 435 et…
Cumberland County has no ordinance addressing artificial turf on private property. Maine's landmark PFAS-in-products law, 38 MRS § 1614 (LD 1503 / PL 2021 ch. 477, amended by LD 217 in…
Cumberland County does not regulate home-prepared food sales; this is governed by Maine state law. Under 22 M.R.S. § 2167, no person may operate a food establishment without a license…
Cumberland County does not regulate signage. Home business signs are controlled by your municipality's sign ordinance, which typically limits home-occupation signs to one small…
Cumberland County does not adopt zoning or land-use ordinances. Whether you may operate a business from your home, and under what conditions, is set entirely by the municipal code of…
Family child care in Cumberland County is licensed by the State of Maine, not by the county. Under 22 M.R.S. § 8301-A, a Family Child Care Provider license is required to care for 4 to…
Cumberland County imposes no rule on customer traffic at a home business. Each municipality's home occupation ordinance sets the limit — typically requiring the business to remain…
Cumberland County imposes no impact fees of any kind — it does not zone, build infrastructure for municipalities, or issue building permits. Municipal impact fees on ADUs are permitted…
Cumberland County does not regulate ADU rentals. State law (30-A MRS § 4364-B) protects long-term ADU rental as a use-by-right, but does not bar municipalities from regulating…
Cumberland County does not regulate ADUs and could not impose an owner-occupancy requirement if it tried. Under 30-A MRS § 4364-B (LD 2003), no Maine municipality may require the…
Cumberland County does not issue building or zoning permits. ADU permits are obtained from the code enforcement officer (CEO) of the municipality where the lot is located. State law…
Cumberland County itself adopts no shed ordinance. The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC) under 25 MRS §2451 governs structural standards, and each of the county's 28…
Cumberland County does not adopt zoning or ADU ordinances. Maine state law (30-A MRS § 4364-B, enacted by LD 2003) requires every Cumberland County municipality to allow at least one…
Cumberland County does not regulate garage conversions. Under 30-A MRS §4364-A (LD 2003, 2022), every Cumberland County municipality must allow at least one accessory dwelling unit in…
Cumberland County has no carport ordinance. Carports are accessory structures regulated by each municipality's zoning code, subject to MUBEC (25 MRS §2451) and, where applicable, the…
Cumberland County has no tiny-home ordinance. State law treats site-built tiny homes under MUBEC Appendix Q (IRC), manufactured tiny homes under 30-A MRS §4358 manufactured-housing…
Cumberland County has no heritage or landmark tree ordinance. Maine maintains an honorary Maine Register of Big Trees through the Maine Forest Service, but the register confers no…
Cumberland County, Maine does not issue tree removal permits or maintain a tree code. Removal of trees on private land is governed by each municipality's tree/landscape ordinance and…
Cumberland County does not own street trees or operate a street-tree planting program. Trees in the public right-of-way are managed by each municipality's Public Works or Parks…
Cumberland County imposes no tree replacement requirement. Mandatory replanting arises only from a municipal site-plan or subdivision ordinance, from Maine DEP shoreland zoning…
Cumberland County designates no protected tree species. Statewide, the Maine Endangered and Threatened Plant Program (5 MRS §13076-A through the Natural Areas Program) and Maine Forest…
Cumberland County has no county erosion-control ordinance. Statewide, Maine DEP requires anyone disturbing soil to install and maintain erosion-control BMPs before, during, and after…
Cumberland County does not adopt a county floodplain ordinance. Each Cumberland County municipality administers its own NFIP-compliant floodplain ordinance under the FEMA Flood…
Cumberland County does not issue grading permits. Substantive grading and drainage requirements come from Maine DEP (Natural Resources Protection Act, stormwater rules), the Maine…
Maine's Mandatory Shoreland Zoning Act overlays the entire Cumberland County coastline along Casco Bay with a 250-foot regulated shoreland zone. Cumberland County does not adopt or…
Cumberland County does not publish a county stormwater ordinance. Stormwater in Cumberland County is regulated by Maine DEP under 38 MRS § 420-D and by each municipality's ordinance…
Cumberland County does not operate a solid waste collection program or codify pickup rules. Trash and recycling pickup schedules, containers and rates are set by each of the county's…
Illegal dumping in Cumberland County is governed by Maine statute, not a county code. Title 17 M.R.S. § 2263-A prohibits depositing litter on public ways, waters, or private property…
Cumberland County itself has no recycling ordinance, but every municipality in the county must report recycling activity biennially to Maine DEP under 38 M.R.S. § 2133, follow the…
Cumberland County does not provide bulk-item pickup or operate a transfer station. Residents must use their municipal transfer station, an ecomaine drop-off, or schedule a fee-based…
Cumberland County does not regulate where or when curbside bins are placed. Each municipality sets its own setback-from-curb, set-out time window, and removal-after-pickup…
Cumberland County has no yard-waste ordinance, but Maine DEP solid-waste rules and 38 M.R.S. ch. 24 ban leaves and yard waste from landfill disposal. Residents must compost on-site…
Cumberland County does not regulate commercial drone (small UAS) operations. Commercial flyers must hold a Remote Pilot Certificate under 14 CFR Part 107, register the drone, broadcast…
Cumberland County has no county-level drone ordinance. Recreational drone use in unincorporated and municipal areas of the county is governed by FAA recreational rules (49 U.S.C. §…
Cumberland County does not operate a park system with subject-matter ordinances and does not restrict drone take-off, landing, or operation in parks. Drone use in state parks within…
Cumberland County has no ordinance on holiday lighting or seasonal displays. Federal First-Amendment doctrine bars content-based restrictions; municipal codes may impose neutral light…
Cumberland County does not regulate garage- or yard-sale signs. Signs in the state-maintained right-of-way are governed by Maine Title 23 §1913-A; signs on private property are subject…
Cumberland County has no county sign ordinance. Political signs on private property are regulated by each of the 28 municipalities; signs in public rights-of-way are governed statewide…
These unincorporated areas are also governed by Cumberland County ordinances.