Wright County sets no lawn-height number for the townships it zones. Cities like Buffalo, Monticello, and St. Michael cap grass around eight to ten inches; on rural land the binding duty is the state noxious weed law.
Minnesota has no statewide grass-height statute, and in unincorporated Wright County the townships the county zones, such as Corinna, Silver Creek, and Maple Lake, carry no fixed maximum lawn height. Tall-grass limits are a city tool: Buffalo, Monticello, St. Michael, Albertville, and Delano each set their own, commonly eight to ten inches, enforced as a nuisance by city staff, who also make the adjoining owner mow the boulevard strip along the street. What binds a rural parcel instead is the Minnesota Noxious Weed Law, Minn. Stat. sections 18.75 to 18.91. The Wright County agricultural inspector administers that duty across the townships.
In cities, overgrowth brings a nuisance notice, a short deadline, then municipal mowing billed to the owner. On township land, uncontrolled noxious weeds trigger the county inspector's notice, county abatement, and costs charged back against the property.
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