Maintenance of vacant lots and abandoned properties in Middlesex County is regulated by each municipality, not the county. Local property-maintenance codes require owners to control brush, debris, infestation and blight on vacant parcels, backed by New Jersey's Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act.
Vacant-lot upkeep in Middlesex County is a municipal function. Each of the 25 municipalities adopts a property-maintenance chapter requiring owners of vacant lots and buildings to keep them free of overgrowth, debris, infestation and structural hazards, and many maintain abandoned-property registration ordinances authorized by New Jersey's Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act (N.J.S.A. 55:19-78 et seq.). The Borough of Middlesex code, for instance, addresses vacant lots and structures that become substandard through deterioration or lack of maintenance. Middlesex County itself does not administer a vacant-lot maintenance code; owners must comply with the ordinance of the town where the parcel sits and register abandoned buildings where required.
Vacant-lot maintenance violations are enforced by the municipality under its property-maintenance chapter, with fines, abatement liens and per-day penalties set locally. Towns may abate overgrowth and bill the owner. The county issues no vacant-lot citations.
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