Pinellas Park Chapter 12 (Health and Sanitation) prohibits public nuisances including overgrown vegetation, accumulated debris, junk, and unsanitary conditions on private property, with enforcement by Community Compliance.
Under Chapter 12 of the Pinellas Park Code of Ordinances, owners must keep premises free of trash, garbage, junk, abandoned materials, overgrown weeds, and similar nuisances. Vegetation height typically must not exceed 12 inches. Inoperable vehicles, unscreened storage, peeling paint, broken windows, and dilapidated structures are enforced as property-maintenance violations. Community Compliance issues a courtesy notice or notice of violation, gives the owner a compliance deadline, and may schedule a Code Enforcement Board or Special Magistrate hearing if the condition continues. Liens can attach for unpaid fines and city-incurred abatement costs.
Unresolved violations can result in daily fines, a Special Magistrate order, lien recordation against the property, and city abatement billed back to the owner.
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