5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Hamilton County, Ohio.
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Hamilton County has no countywide rule on where trash carts are stored between pickups. Bin storage and screening requirements come from your municipality or township property-maintenance code, not the county.
Hamilton County itself has no countywide blight code. In unincorporated areas, township trustees may abate nuisance vegetation, garbage, and debris under Ohio law; incorporated cities enforce their own property-maintenance codes.
ORC 505.87(A)
A board of township trustees may provide for the abatement, control, or removal of vegetation, garbage, refuse, and other debris from land in the township, if the board determines that the owner's maintenance of that vegetation, garbage, refuse, or other debris constitutes a nuisance.
There is no countywide vacant-lot maintenance code. Townships may abate nuisance vegetation and debris on vacant parcels under ORC 505.87, and remove junk vehicles under ORC 505.871; incorporated cities use their own codes.
ORC 505.871(D)
If a junk motor vehicle is located on private property, the board of township trustees may provide in the resolution for the removal of the vehicle not sooner than fourteen days after the board serves written notice of its intention to remove or cause the removal of the vehicle on the owner of the land.
Hamilton County has no countywide garage-sale ordinance. Whether you need a permit, and how many sales per year you may hold, is decided by your city, village, or township. Many Hamilton County communities cap sales at two to four per year.
Hamilton County sets no countywide grass-height limit. Townships may cut nuisance vegetation under ORC 505.87; within municipalities, ORC 731.51 lets the city notice owners to cut noxious weeds within five days, and local codes set the actual height limit.
ORC 731.51
Upon written information that noxious weeds are growing on lands in a municipal corporation, and are about to spread or mature seeds, the legislative authority shall cause a written notice to be served upon the owner, lessee, agent, or tenant having charge of such land, notifying him that noxious weeds are growing on such lands and that they must be cut and destroyed within five days after the ...
1 cities in Hamilton County have their own property maintenance rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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