5 rules for unincorporated Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Verified from official government sources
Kanawha County issues no cart and sets no rule on where you store trash bins between pickups. Screening and placement are a city or HOA matter; the county acts only if refuse spills or accumulates into a nuisance.
Blight enforcement in Kanawha County is split. Charleston and the other cities run active code enforcement against dilapidated buildings, junk and overgrowth. In the unincorporated county, the County Commission uses its state-granted authority to order unsafe, dilapidated structures repaired or removed.
Owners of vacant lots in Kanawha County must keep them clear of overgrowth, trash and dumped debris. Cities enforce this through property-maintenance codes; the county commission uses nuisance and dilapidated-structure authority. Illegal dumping on empty parcels is a recurring rural problem.
Kanawha County imposes no sidewalk snow-clearing duty on unincorporated property owners, and maintains few sidewalks outside the towns. The real duty is municipal: Charleston and the other cities require owners to clear the abutting walk — a serious matter on the valley's steep, icy streets.
Kanawha County does not license residential yard sales, so no county cleanup code governs them directly. Merchandise, signs and debris left out afterward can be reached as a nuisance; inside the cities, property-maintenance codes require prompt cleanup.
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