New Rochelle requires property owners to keep lots free of overgrown brush, weeds, and combustible debris under its property-maintenance code. Notices of violation trigger cleanup deadlines and municipal abatement liens if ignored.
As a New York city, New Rochelle is not in a wildland-urban interface, so statewide 'defensible space' rules do not apply. Instead, the city's property maintenance code requires owners to keep lots free of rank weeds, overgrown grass, brush, and accumulated combustible debris that could become a fire hazard or nuisance. Code enforcement issues notices; unresolved cases lead to municipal cleanup billed to the owner.
Unabated properties face daily fines, forced city cleanup, and tax-lien recovery of abatement costs. Repeat offenders can be prosecuted in city court.
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