Dorchester County sets no fixed inch limit; overgrown grass, weeds, and undergrowth are abated as nuisances under its environment code. The SC Right to Farm Act shields working farms, and Summerville enforces its own overgrowth limits in town.
South Carolina has no statewide grass-height statute, so control falls to local government. Dorchester County treats uncut grass, weeds, and undergrowth on a lot as a public nuisance under its Chapter 14 environment code, acting on complaints rather than a single number, then abating and charging the owner who ignores notice. Inside Summerville and the county's other towns, municipal property-maintenance ordinances add their own limits. Established commercial agricultural operations are protected from nuisance claims by the South Carolina Right to Farm Act, so a working Lowcountry farm is not a code violation.
Written notice with a cure deadline. Ignore it and the county administrator may cut the growth and bill the owner, adding the cost as a lien. Established farms are shielded by the Right to Farm Act.
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