New Jersey has no statewide weed law, but N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.13 lets every Somerset County municipality order owners to destroy brush, weeds, and ragweed within 10 days of notice. Each town adopts and enforces its own version.
There is no statewide weed-abatement statute in New Jersey, but the Legislature authorized municipalities to act. N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.13 empowers any Somerset County town to require an owner to remove or destroy brush, weeds including ragweed, dead trees, and obnoxious growths within 10 days after notice, and to do the work itself and charge the owner if the deadline passes. Towns from Franklin to Hillsborough have adopted such ordinances, enforced by the property-maintenance or health officer and aimed at growth that harbors vermin or spreads pollen. A deliberate, tended native garden is treated differently from neglected overgrowth.
Under the town ordinance, the owner receives written notice and 10 days to clear the growth. If ignored, the municipality removes it and assesses the cost against the property as a lien, plus any fine the ordinance sets.
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