Where you keep your Meridian Waste cart between pickups isn't a county matter. Unincorporated Lee County sets no screening rule; hiding bins from the street is a city or HOA requirement.
Lee County issues a 95-gallon cart and requires you to have collection service under §22-27-3, but nothing in county law dictates where that cart sits between pickups or whether it must be screened from the street. In the unincorporated area, cart storage and appearance simply aren't regulated. Rules that require bins behind a fence, beside the house, or out of view come from a homeowners association covenant or, inside Auburn and Opelika, city property-maintenance code. The county's interest begins only if refuse spills out of the cart and accumulates into a junk or litter nuisance under §45-41-170.01.
No county penalty attaches to a visible or curbside-stored cart. A citation appears only if spilled refuse becomes a junk or litter nuisance under §45-41-170.01, or if a city or HOA screening rule is broken.
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