Cumberland County does not adopt a code of ordinances and has no grass-height or tall-weeds rule. Grass-height enforcement is a municipal matter under 30-A MRS § 3001 home-rule authority — Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, and other Cumberland County municipalities maintain their own nuisance/property-maintenance ordinances. The unincorporated areas of Maine are governed by the Land Use Planning Commission (12 MRS § 685-A), but Cumberland County contains no Unorganized Territory.
Maine counties have no general legislative authority over property maintenance. Per the Cumberland County government structure (cumberlandcountyme.gov), the county operates the Sheriff's Office, EMA, Registry of Deeds, District Attorney, Public Health, and Jail — not a zoning or property-maintenance code. Grass-height limits, if any, are set by each of the 28 Cumberland County municipalities under 30-A MRS § 3001 (Ordinance Power). Common municipal thresholds in the county range from 8 to 12 inches before a property is declared a nuisance. The state-level overlay is the Shoreland Zoning Act (38 MRS § 435 et seq.) which requires preservation of vegetated buffers within 250 ft of great ponds, rivers, freshwater wetlands, and tidal waters — meaning shoreline lawn-mowing must follow the cleared-opening rules in the local shoreland ordinance, not be cut to bare earth.
No county enforcement. Violations are pursued by the relevant municipality (typically Code Enforcement Officer) under the municipality's own property-maintenance ordinance. Civil penalties under 30-A MRS § 4452 range from $100 to $2,500 per day per violation for land-use ordinance breaches.
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