Morris County has no countywide vacant-lot maintenance ordinance. New Jersey towns regulate overgrowth, dumping, and nuisance conditions on vacant and unimproved lots through their own property-maintenance codes and can compel owners to clean up or bill them for abatement.
Because New Jersey counties do not exercise land-use zoning or property-maintenance police power over private lots, vacant-lot standards are municipal in Morris County. Towns adopt property-maintenance codes prohibiting brush, weeds, debris, and nuisance growth on any property, improved or vacant. In Parsippany-Troy Hills, for example, the code bars 'brush, weeds, broken glass, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth, garbage, trash, refuse and debris' on properties. Municipalities may serve notice, order the owner to abate, and, if the owner fails, clean the lot and place the cost as a lien on the property. Confirm the specific overgrowth height and abatement steps with your town.
Owners who fail to abate face municipal fines and municipal cleanup billed back as a property lien under the town's property-maintenance ordinance.
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Morris County, NJ
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