Lauderhill, FL Landscaping Rules: Weed Ordinances (2026)

City Code Section 10-15(a) defines 'vegetation' broadly as all natural growth on a lot or parcel, including grass, weeds, trees, vines, bushes, underbrush, and the waste material that growth produces. Subsection (c) is the operative rule: no person owning or possessing land may permit an excessive accumulation of untended growth of grass, weeds, vegetation, rubbish, trash, or standing or fallen dead trees on any lot, tract, or parcel, improved or unimproved, within the city where that growth could become infested by rodents or wild animals, breed mosquitoes, threaten public health or safety, cause disease, or impair the economic welfare of adjacent property; the code declares such an accumulation a public nuisance outright.

The city commission's legislative findings in subsection (b) tie the rule directly to the rise in foreclosed and abandoned properties, framing overgrown vegetation control as a tool against blight. Enforcement follows the same notice-and-remedy path as the rest of Section 10-15: the code enforcement division director notifies the owner in writing, the owner has five days to request a hearing before the code enforcement board, and if the condition is not corrected the city may cut the growth itself and bill the owner, with unpaid charges becoming a property lien after 30 days that can reach an 18 percent interest tax certificate.