Grass and weed height in the City of Wyoming, Michigan is regulated under Chapter 82 (Trees and Weeds) of the Wyoming Code of Ordinances (https://library.municode.com/mi/wyoming) and the property-maintenance provisions enforced by the Wyoming Building Inspections division (https://www.wyomingmi.gov/About-Wyoming/City-Departments/Inspections). State authority comes from the Michigan Noxious Weeds Act (1941 PA 359, MCL 247.61 to 247.72), which empowers each city to appoint a commissioner of noxious weeds and recover abatement costs as a lien.
Wyoming's high-grass and weed standards are administered through Chapter 82 (Trees and Weeds) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Wyoming, Michigan (https://library.municode.com/mi/wyoming), with property-maintenance enforcement by the Wyoming Building Inspections division of the Community and Economic Development Department (https://www.wyomingmi.gov/About-Wyoming/City-Departments/Inspections). Wyoming Building Inspections is responsible for enforcing property-maintenance, rental-program, and code standards on private property. The Michigan Noxious Weeds Act (Act 359 of 1941, MCL 247.61 to 247.72) authorizes each city, village, or township to appoint a competent person as commissioner of noxious weeds (MCL 247.61) and directs that commissioner to take charge of noxious weeds growing in the jurisdiction so that they do not go to seed, spread, or become a detriment to public health (MCL 247.62 to 247.64). Under the Act, if the owner, agent, or occupant refuses to destroy noxious weeds after notice, the commissioner may enter and destroy them, with expenses charged to the owner and collected as a lien against the land (MCL 247.65 to 247.66). Wyoming residents who observe untended lots or overgrown vegetation may report the condition to Wyoming Building Inspections through the City's online request system. Residents should confirm the current Chapter 82 height threshold and notice-and-cure window directly with Wyoming Building Inspections or in the official Code at https://library.municode.com/mi/wyoming, since the City Code does not display fixed-text excerpts in third-party indexes.
Failure to abate untended grass, weeds, or noxious vegetation after notice from Wyoming Building Inspections authorizes the City to cause the work to be performed and to assess the cost against the property owner. Under MCL 247.66, expenses incurred by the commissioner of noxious weeds in destroying weeds are paid by the owner of the land and the city has a lien against the land for the amount of that expense, collectible like a tax assessment. Repeat or unabated violations may also be charged as municipal civil infractions under Wyoming's general ordinance-enforcement framework, with each day of continuing violation chargeable as a separate offense.
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