Hendricks County, IN Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

C. 15-16-7 to help the individual township Trustees eradicate noxious weeds across the county. The Board is appointed by the Board of Commissioners for four-year terms and includes one township Trustee, one Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, a representative from the agricultural community, a representative from the County Highway Department, and a nonvoting Cooperative Extension Service Agent. The County Highway Supervisor and the Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor serve as inspectors, making periodic inspections and reporting findings to the Board and its Executive Director, if one is appointed.

Subsection (C) lists four species under the Board's jurisdiction: Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), Johnson grass and sorghum alum (sorghum halapense), bur cucumber (sicyos angulatus), and shattercane (sorghum biculor). Subsection (E), titled Property, lets the Board and Trustees require any person owning real easements, rights-of-way, or other similar interests in real estate in the county, whether the parcel carries a house or sits vacant, to control and contain these noxious weeds. Before any further step, the Board and Trustees must issue a five-day written notice to remove the weeds, served by certified or registered mail to the owner's latest known address or agent, or alternatively served by the County Sheriff.

C. 15-16-7-7. Because Hendricks County's general code governs only the unincorporated area, this weed-control regime reaches farmland, subdivided-but-unbuilt lots, and other vacant parcels outside Danville, Avon, Brownsburg, Plainfield and the county's other incorporated towns. The section was adopted by Ord. 2000-1, passed January 4, 2000.