Butler County has no countywide vacant-lot ordinance. In unincorporated townships, ORC 505.87 lets trustees clear nuisance vegetation, garbage, refuse, and debris after notice and lien the cost to the owner. Cities enforce their own vacant-lot and weed codes.
For an overgrown or debris-filled vacant lot, jurisdiction depends on location. In unincorporated Butler County, the township board of trustees may abate the nuisance under ORC 505.87 after at least seven days' written notice to the owner; costs are paid from the township fund and become a lien on the land. If the same owner re-offends within twelve months, the notice period shrinks to four days. Inside Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, Oxford, and other cities, the municipal high-grass and property-maintenance ordinances govern vacant lots instead.
Township abates after notice; costs become a lien. Repeat nuisance within 12 months allows abatement on just four days' notice.
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