Kent County, Michigan has no countywide blight or property-maintenance ordinance. Blight enforcement (junk, dilapidated structures, overgrowth) is handled by your individual city, village, or township under its own code and Michigan's blight law. Contact your local code-enforcement office.
Michigan counties generally do not regulate property blight where cities and townships have adopted their own ordinances, and in Kent County virtually all land sits inside a city, village, or zoned township. Local blight, nuisance, and property-maintenance codes are enforced by municipal code officers, not by Kent County. Michigan's blight statute (MCL 125.487-125.489) authorizes townships and cities to adopt and enforce blight ordinances. Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Kentwood, and the townships each set their own standards for junk, inoperable vehicles, tall grass, and structural deterioration. Check your municipality's code enforcement or building department for the rules that apply to your specific parcel.
Set by your city, village, or township ordinance; penalties, fines, and abatement timelines vary by municipality, not the county.
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Kent County, MI
Kent County has no ordinance using the word 'hoarding,' but its adequate-care, sanitary-condition, and cruelty provisions let Animal Control seize animals ke...
Kent County, MI
Kent County's Animal Control Ordinance does not address feeding wild animals. Deer and elk baiting and feeding are regulated statewide by the Michigan DNR, w...
Kent County, MI
Kent County requires licensing and leashing only for dogs, not cats. Cats are still covered by the ordinance's adequate-care and cruelty provisions, and by M...
Kent County, MI
Kent County sets no general household pet cap, but any establishment keeping three or more dogs for sale, boarding, breeding, or training for pay is a 'kenne...
Kent County, MI
Backyard composting is allowed and encouraged in Kent County. Michigan law bans yard clippings from landfills, and the Kent County Department of Public Works...
Kent County, MI
Kent County has no artificial-turf ordinance. Whether synthetic grass is allowed in a front yard is a city or township zoning and property-maintenance questi...
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