Plantation, FL Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)
Key Facts
- Snow Ordinance
- None found in the code
- Trim Deadline
- Ten days after notice
- Cut Back To
- Your property line
- Grass and Weeds
- Twelve inches maximum
- Unpaid Abatement Cost
- Lien at 8% simple interest
Summary
Plantation's code contains no snow or ice removal requirement. The sidewalk duty here is vegetation: if your trees or plantings block a sidewalk or right-of-way, you must cut them back to your property line within ten days of notice.
Any property owner who permits or allows vegetation, trees or plantings to grow or extend from the property of such owner into, across or over public rights-of-way in such a manner as to obstruct the free flow of vehicular traffic (including trucks where allowed) upon such rights-of-way or pedestrians from using sidewalks located within such public rights-of-way, shall forthwith and within ten (10) days of being notified of such obstruction, trim or cut such trees, plantings or shrubbery back to his property line so as to not obstruct the free and full use of sidewalks and road rights-of-way by the public.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 30 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Section 11-9 puts the duty on the property owner. If vegetation, trees or plantings grow from your land into, across or over a public right-of-way so that vehicular traffic is obstructed or pedestrians cannot use the sidewalk, you must trim or cut them back to your property line within ten days of being notified. If you do not, the maintenance department follows the weeds-and-brush procedure in Section 11-8 to recover the cost as an assessment against your land. Section 11-8 separately caps grass, weeds and brush at three months' growth or a height of twelve inches, with fourteen days to act after the city's letter.
Violations & Fines
Miss the ten-day deadline and the city clears the vegetation and assesses the cost against your land by resolution. The assessment becomes a lien that accrues simple interest at eight percent per year until satisfied.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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