Mobile County can act on overgrown lots in unincorporated areas, but only as a nuisance under Ala. Code §11-3A-2, which adopts the state's 12-inch weed standard. There is no routine height patrol, and HOA covenants govern most subdivision lawns.
Alabama is a Dillon's Rule state, so the Mobile County Commission holds only the narrow abatement power the Legislature grants over the unincorporated Gulf Coast stretches around Grand Bay, Theodore, and Wilmer. Under §11-3A-2 the commission may abate weeds as a public nuisance as defined in Section 11-67-60, the statute that fixes overgrowth above 12 inches as a nuisance. That power only switches on by commission resolution or a petition of 10 percent of unincorporated voters, so it is not a routine height cop. In the humid climate kudzu and Bahia grass explode, and inside Mobile, Saraland, and Citronelle the cities enforce their own 12-inch limits. For a typical subdivision lawn, the HOA covenant sets and enforces the neat-lawn standard.
Where the county has adopted abatement, an overgrown lot draws written notice, a deadline to cut, then county-contracted mowing with the cost assessed as a lien against the property. City lots follow the municipality's own weed ordinance.
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