5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Mohave County, Arizona.
Verified from official government sources
Mohave County provides no curbside carts and sets no bin-storage or screening rule in unincorporated areas. How you store containers is up to you, unless refuse spills and accumulates into a public-health nuisance.
Mohave County enforces blight through the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code (adopted by Building Ordinance 2021-03) and state nuisance law. Junk, debris, and inoperable or unlicensed vehicles on a property are the core violations.
Mohave County Building Ordinance 2021-03, 2018 IPMC § 302.8
Except as provided for in other regulations, including the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance, no inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicle shall be parked, kept or stored on any premises, and no vehicle shall, at any time, be in a state of major disassembly, disrepair, or in the process of being stripped or dismantled.
Vacant desert parcels in Mohave County must be kept free of dumped waste and overgrown weeds. The county adopted a 30-inch weed limit under the IPMC, and dumping on a lot is both a nuisance and an ERACE enforcement target.
A.R.S. § 36-601(A)(17)
The storage, collection, transportation, disposal and reclamation of garbage, trash, rubbish, manure and other objectionable wastes other than as provided and authorized by law.
Snow is a non-issue across most of Mohave County. The river and valley communities — Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Fort Mohave — see no accumulating snow, and the county has no snow-clearing ordinance or owner shoveling duty.
Mohave County has no dedicated garage-sale cleanup ordinance, but leftover merchandise, tables, and stray signs can be pursued as a nuisance. Sale signs are capped at two, each four square feet, for no more than five days.
Mohave County Zoning Ordinance § 31.H (Sign Ordinance)
Two (2) signs pertaining to a garage or yard sale, limited in area to four (4) square feet, and shall be allowed only during the sale, not to exceed five (5) days.
1 cities in Mohave County have their own property maintenance rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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