No Massachusetts statute caps lawn grass height, and Plymouth County holds no ordinance power. Any height limit across Carver, Wareham, Middleborough, Duxbury, and the South Shore comes from a town's own property-maintenance or nuisance bylaw.
Massachusetts has no general law setting a maximum grass height, and counties in the Commonwealth cannot pass ordinances, so nothing county-wide governs how tall a lawn may grow in Plymouth County. Where a limit exists, a town adopts it as a local bylaw enforced by the building or health department, typically framing overgrowth as a public nuisance rather than fixing an inches number. Coastal towns such as Marshfield and Scituate and cranberry-country towns such as Carver and Middleborough each set their own standard, so the rule that binds an address is the bylaw of that town. On unmanaged wetland-adjacent parcels, tall natural vegetation is often protected, not cited.
Towns that regulate overgrowth act on their nuisance or property-maintenance bylaw: written notice to the owner, a correction deadline, then municipal mowing with costs assessed to the property. Fine amounts are set by each town.
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Plymouth County, MA
No Plymouth County or state law limits holiday lights, inflatables, or yard displays. Towns rarely regulate seasonal decorations at all, and where a bylaw to...
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No Plymouth County rule governs garage-sale signs; towns handle them through local sign bylaws. On your own lawn a yard-sale sign is generally fine, but a si...
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Towns, not Plymouth County, regulate signs, through zoning bylaws authorized by MGL c.40A. Those bylaws must stay content-neutral: after Reed v. Town of Gilb...
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Rental registration and inspection are local powers, not county ones. The State Sanitary Code under MGL c.111 §127A lets each town's board of health enforce ...
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Massachusetts has no statewide just-cause eviction law, and no Plymouth County town can add one. A landlord ends a tenancy at will with 30 days' written noti...
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Rent control is illegal across every Plymouth County community. Massachusetts voters banned it in 1994 through Question 9, now codified as MGL c.40P §4: no c...
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