Lancaster County sets no weed ordinance; your municipality does (e.g., Lancaster City's six-inch limit). Statewide, Pennsylvania's Controlled Plants and Noxious Weeds law bars cultivating or propagating listed noxious weeds and lets the state order landowners to treat them.
Overgrown weeds on residential lots are a municipal nuisance matter, not a county one — for example, the City of Lancaster's Chapter 105 bars grass or weeds over six inches. Separately, Pennsylvania's statewide Controlled Plants and Noxious Weeds law (Act 46 of 2017, 3 Pa.C.S. Ch. 15) makes it a violation to distribute, cultivate, or propagate any listed noxious weed, and empowers the PA Department of Agriculture to issue a control order requiring a landowner to treat noxious weeds such as Palmer amaranth or giant hogweed. That state program is enforced by the Department, not by Lancaster County government.
Municipal: cut-and-bill plus summary fine. State: PA Dept. of Agriculture control order; failure to comply allows treatment and cost recovery, plus civil penalties under 3 Pa.C.S. Ch. 15.
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