Butler County has no countywide blight code. In unincorporated townships, the township trustees abate nuisance vegetation, garbage, refuse, and debris under ORC 505.87; inside cities (Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, Oxford), the city property-maintenance code applies.
Ohio counties do not have general zoning or property-maintenance authority over the whole county. In the unincorporated area, ORC 505.87 lets the board of township trustees determine that an owner's maintenance of vegetation, garbage, refuse, or debris is a nuisance and abate it after written notice. Costs become a lien on the land. Incorporated cities enforce their own property-maintenance codes. So the honest answer for a Butler County OH resident is: check whether your address is in a city (city code) or unincorporated township (ORC 505.87 via trustees).
Township trustees may abate after 7 days' notice; all abatement costs are assessed against the owner and become a lien on the land.
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