Jackson County, MS Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

06, Care of Premises and Property, makes it unlawful for an owner or occupant of any building, structure, or property in the unincorporated county to use the premises for open storage of a household appliance, abandoned motor vehicle, furniture, used rubber tires, scrap building materials, trash, garbage, refuse, rubble, debris, a dilapidated vehicle, or a dilapidated boat. The section reaches beyond loose debris to structures themselves: it expressly covers any burned, condemned, or dilapidated building, structure or mobile home left standing on the property. The ordinance places an affirmative duty on the owner or occupant, not just a prohibition, stating it is their responsibility to keep the premises clean.

12), immediately after the county's separate standards for junkyards, industrial by-product storage, and contractor/lumber storage yards, which set minimum acreage and screening rules for those specific commercial open-storage uses. 06, by contrast, applies to any property, commercial, industrial, residential or mobile home, and targets accumulated blight rather than a licensed storage business. The Jackson County Planning Department, 2915 Canty Street, Pascagoula, is the enforcing office for zoning violations countywide outside Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, Gautier and Moss Point.