5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Allen County, Indiana.
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Allen County's Property Maintenance Code requires all exterior property to be kept clean and sanitary, so accumulated rubbish and garbage on a property is a violation. The county does not run curbside trash collection or set a countywide cart-storage schedule; haulers and cities handle setout rules.
Allen County Code 6-8-6-3
All exterior property and premises shall be maintained in a safe and sanitary condition. The occupant shall keep that part of the exterior property, which such occupant occupies, or controls, in a clean and sanitary condition.
Allen County's Property Maintenance/Minimum Housing Code (Allen County Code Title 6, Article 8) makes it unlawful to let structures or premises fall into an unsafe, unsanitary, or blighting condition. The county Building Department enforces it in unincorporated Allen County; Fort Wayne and New Haven run their own codes.
Allen County Code 6-8-7-1
The exterior of a structure shall be maintained in good repair, structurally sound and sanitary so as not to pose a threat to the public health, safety or welfare.
Allen County Code 6-8-5-4 requires all vacant structures, premises, and vacant land to be kept safe, secure, and sanitary so they do not cause a blighting problem or harm public health or safety. Agricultural land is exempt. Fort Wayne and towns regulate vacant lots within their limits.
Allen County Code 6-8-5-4
All vacant structures and premises thereof or vacant land shall be maintained in a, safe, secure and sanitary condition as provided herein so as not to cause a blighting problem or adversely affect the public health or safety.
Unincorporated Allen County has no dedicated garage-sale permit ordinance; occasional residential yard sales are treated as a customary accessory use under the Allen County Zoning Ordinance (Title 3). Frequent, ongoing sales can become an unpermitted home occupation. Fort Wayne and towns may cap sales.
Allen County sets no fixed grass-height number in county code; overgrown weeds and rank vegetation are addressed through the state weed-control statute (IC 36-7-10.1) and the county's property-maintenance requirement that premises be kept sanitary and free of blight. Fort Wayne and towns set their own grass-height limits.
1 cities in Allen County have their own property maintenance rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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