Montgomery County, VA Ordinances (2026)

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, PUD-TND Property Owners Association documents must provide for collecting dues, levies and assessments and give the…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, homes built under the PUD-TND zoning district must join a Property Owners Association by mandatory deed covenant, and the…

Montgomery County requires a permit and the electrical inspector's approval before any wiring, repair or addition to electric apparatus in a building, outside Blacksburg and…

Montgomery County's Building Official runs the Inspections Department, enforcing the building code and state construction law and keeping public records of every inspection. A separate…

Montgomery County has adopted the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code by reference, controlling permits for construction, alteration, removal and demolition countywide. No permit…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a day care center is a licensed use under Sec 10-61: commercial or public care for more than nine children, or more than four aged, infirm or…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, County Code § 9.1-60 makes it unlawful to throw away a hypodermic needle, syringe or any injection device without first…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, County Code Sec. 7-54 declares any accumulation of matter in a residential area that becomes a breeding or harboring place…

Montgomery County's Erosion and Stormwater Management Ordinance requires an approved erosion control and stormwater plan and a land-disturbance approval before regulated…

Montgomery County runs its own Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program, and no one may disturb land until the county issues land-disturbance approval. Projects disturbing…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the zoning ordinance's Flood Damage Prevention Overlay divides FEMA-mapped land into four districts, Floodway, Special…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, new or substantially improved buildings in a mapped special flood hazard area must have their lowest floor, basement…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, County Code § 9.1-66 makes it unlawful to dispose of or discard waste on any property not permitted by the state Department…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the county administrator can require households and businesses to separate solid waste by type before it goes to a county…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the county runs residential trash pickup itself or through a contracted hauler, and treats it as part of the county's health…

Under the collection article of Montgomery County's trash code, the county administrator can order residents to separate solid waste by type before it goes to a county disposal…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, residents can request county pickup of furniture, large appliances and brush by applying to the county administrator and…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, door-to-door residential trash collection happens at least once a week where the county has authorized it. Motels…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, county-collected trash has to be set at the curb or street edge in adequate containers, and only on the regularly scheduled…

Montgomery County places bulk containers and roll-off 'green boxes' around the county for residents to dump household waste. It is unlawful to deposit oversized items, building…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, restaurants with outdoor sidewalk seating in the PUD-TND (Planned Unit Development-Traditional Neighborhood Development)…

Any musical or entertainment festival in unincorporated Montgomery County needs a special entertainment permit from the county administrator under Code Section 5-51, filed thirty days…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, no parade may occupy, march or proceed along any county highway without a permit from the Montgomery County governing body or its authorized…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, streets built inside a PUD-TND development must include bicycle routes, lanes or paths, and any separate bicycle lane must…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, PUD-TND developments must plant canopy street trees on both sides of every street, spaced under Section 10-43's landscape…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, street lights in a PUD-TND development must be dark-sky compatible and fully shielded, capped at 250 watts HID for…

Under Sec 10-46's performance standards, outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, glare from any permitted or special-use property cannot exceed 0.25 footcandles above background light…

County Code § 3-28.1 requires every new owner who adopts a dog or cat from a releasing agency, including the county shelter, to have it sterilized within 30 days of adoption, or within…

A veterinary practice or animal hospital is a by-right use in Montgomery County's A-1 Agricultural District, meaning it does not need a special use permit, only compliance with the…

County Code § 3-36 makes it unlawful for a dog owner to let the dog run or be at large anywhere in unincorporated Montgomery County. A dog counts as "at large" whenever it roams, runs…

Montgomery County sets no numeric cap on dogs or cats kept in a single home, but County Code § 3-1 defines a "kennel" as any establishment keeping five or more canines, felines, or…

County Code § 3-3 makes it unlawful to let any fowl, poultry, or livestock run at large onto a highway, public property, or a neighbor's premises anywhere in unincorporated Montgomery…

County Code § 3-6 bars residents from importing, keeping, or releasing any predatory animal or one that may endanger life or property in unincorporated Montgomery County without a…

Montgomery County has no general microchipping mandate for pets, but County Code § 3-30(c) lets a district court order a dog found to have killed or injured only poultry to be fitted…

Montgomery County requires every cat over four months old to carry a current rabies vaccination under Code Section 3-40. The county sets no separate cat license or leash law, but a cat…

Montgomery County has no breed-specific ban. Article V lets a court declare an individual dog dangerous or vicious based on its own conduct, but Sections 3-54 and 3-56 expressly bar…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, residential beekeeping is allowed in the R-1, R-2, R-3, TND and PUD-RES districts on a half-acre lot or larger, capped at…

Montgomery County exempts farm buildings and structures from the zoning chapter's requirements once they meet the district's minimum front, side and rear setbacks and sit on land…

Montgomery County's A-1 Agricultural District is built to preserve the rural character of the county's unincorporated land where farming, forestry and open space predominate…

A commercial day care operation in Montgomery County's A-1 district needs board-of-supervisors approval of a special use permit, but that permit requirement only kicks in once the…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a home occupation must stay clearly incidental to residential use, fit within 25 percent of the dwelling's gross floor area…

A home occupation or home business in Montgomery County's unincorporated area cannot generate more traffic than a normal residential use would, and Sec 10-41(4) bars on-site retail…

Montgomery County's zoning ordinance allows one nonilluminated sign of up to four square feet per side for a home occupation or home business, and bars any other change to the…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the A-1 Agricultural District caps building coverage at 20 percent of a lot and impervious surface coverage at 30 percent…

Montgomery County's A-1 Agricultural District requires a 40-foot front yard, 15-foot side yards for each principal structure, and a 40-foot rear yard, with accessory buildings kept at…

Montgomery County caps buildings in the A-1 Agricultural District at 40 feet, but a structure can go taller with a special use permit if it adds two extra feet of setback for every…

Weeds over fifteen inches tall on a parcel are a public nuisance in Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg. The owner and occupant share a joint duty to cut them, and…

Montgomery County's weed and trash ordinance does not reach land kept under an approved natural-landscaping plan. A property owner can let native plantings, open space or conservation…

Montgomery County caps stationary noise sources by zone and time of day: 57 dB(A) daytime and 52 dB(A) nighttime in residential and agricultural zones, higher in business and…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Code Sec. 7-77 makes it a noise disturbance to run a radio, musical instrument, TV, phonograph or other sound device so it's…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Code Sec. 7-81 bars operating a motor vehicle so as to create prohibited noise, from a rattling exhaust to unnecessary…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Code Sec. 7-77 makes it a noise disturbance to own, keep or harbor an animal that habitually howls, barks, meows or squawks…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the zoning ordinance's Airport Safety Overlay District states its purpose as shielding neighboring properties from airport…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Code Sec. 7-80 caps stationary noise sources by zoning district and time of day: in residential and agricultural zones the…

Trash on any parcel, improved or vacant, in a residential, business, commercial or industrial zone or platted subdivision is a public nuisance under Montgomery County's abatement…

A Montgomery County property owner must remove, repair or secure any building or structure that endangers public health or safety. If the owner does not act after notice, the Board of…

Montgomery County levies a 3 percent transient occupancy tax on hotels, motels, boardinghouses, travel campgrounds and other guest-room facilities in the unincorporated area outside…

Open burning of woods, brush and debris is restricted year-round under Code Section 4-3, with a February 15 to April 30 seasonal window limiting daytime burning near woodland. Section…

Montgomery County requires a county administrator permit before any fireworks display under Article II of Chapter 4. Applications go in thirty days ahead, displays must run under a…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, no work may be performed on county-owned or county-controlled real property, including highway, street or parking-lot…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Sec 7-54 declares any obstruction on a street or sidewalk, plus stones, rubbish, dirt or other debris placed there, a public nuisance. The county…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, County Code Sec. 7-54 makes it a nuisance to let a sidewalk, gutter or curbstone stay unsafe or out of repair, and Sec. 7-56…

Anyone going door-to-door to sell, survey or collect donations in unincorporated Montgomery County must register with the sheriff and carry a one-year photo permit under Code Section…

Montgomery County's flea market ordinance carves out garage and yard sales from its licensing rules only if they occur no more frequently than once every sixty days, per Code Section…

Dealers buying secondhand gold, silver, platinum or gems in Montgomery County need a sheriff-issued permit under Code Section 5-136, a two-hundred-dollar fee, fingerprinting, a…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a tow truck company or operator cannot remove a vehicle from private property without first getting permission from the property owner, operator…

Montgomery County's code does not license massage establishments; instead Sec 7-6 makes it unlawful for any massage salon, bath parlor or similar business, outside Blacksburg and…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, parking any automobile, truck or other automotive equipment on or alongside a county or state road for a commercial purpose is unlawful under Sec…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a vehicle is presumed abandoned under Sec 6-55 once it has sat in one spot for four days without a current license plate or valid state…

On county-owned or county-leased property outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Sec 6-54.1 bars standing, stopping or parking a vehicle adjacent to any yellow-painted curb, and…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, any new building or use, or any expansion of one, must provide the off-street loading space set by the Sec. 10-44 use table…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a residential lot may park no more than one commercial vehicle tied to an approved home occupation, capped at one and a half…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, boats, camping trailers, travel trailers, motorized dwellings and horse vans parked in a residential district cannot be…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, § 10-41 limits front-yard parking to the area covered by a paved or gravel driveway. Parking anywhere else on a front lawn…

In Montgomery County's unincorporated area, a residential front-yard fence tops out at four feet, while side and rear yard fences can rise to eight feet, under Sec 10-41(8)'s…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a required landscape bufferyard between properties of differing use intensity cannot contain a retaining wall taller than…

Operating a short term tourist rental in Montgomery County's unincorporated area requires a zoning permit plus a Planning Department-approved property management plan, and HOA-governed…

Montgomery County ties the maximum number of guests allowed at a short term tourist rental to whatever the Virginia Department of Health approves on the property's permit, rather than…

Guests at a Montgomery County short term tourist rental must park in driveways or other designated, approved parking areas; Sec 10-41(6) bans parking in rights-of-way or in yards…

Montgomery County requires every short term tourist rental to have a copy of the county's noise ordinance, Section 7, Article 4, physically posted at the rental, so guests can see the…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a Short Term Tourist Rental does not require the owner to live on site: Sec 10-61 defines it as a rental where "the operator does not live on the…

Montgomery County treats multiflora rose as a controlled invasive species under Code Sec. 7-9: no one may knowingly let it set seed on their land, and no one may import it into the…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Code Sec. 7-78 lets a bar, club or other place of public entertainment run sound at 90 dB(A) or higher only if it posts a…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, accessory dwellings are allowed as rental units in the A-1, C-1, R-Rural, R-1, R-2 and R-3 districts with a zoning permit…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a small shed, pet house or pen built with a single-family home is capped at 150 square feet and 12 feet in height under the…

Community and utility-scale solar projects outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg need a Board of Supervisors special use permit under Sec 10-48, backed by a full application, with…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a business within a quarter mile of an interstate ramp can ask the Board of Supervisors or BZA for a special use permit to…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, a window sign needs no sign permit as long as it covers no more than 50 percent of the window or door's total area. Section…

In Montgomery County outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, campaign and political signs fall under the countywide temporary-sign rules in Sec 10-45: no sign goes up on public land…

Outside Blacksburg and Christiansburg, Sec 10-45 treats the electronic message sign as its own permanent sign type: each message must hold for at least five seconds with no flashing…