Spring Hill, TN Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

Section 13-103 opens by saying lots, tracts and parcels of land within the city shall be maintained and that the city will act under subsections (A) through (F). The text names lots, tracts and parcels and draws no line between built and unbuilt ground. Subsection (A) makes it unlawful for any person knowingly to allow a pool of stagnant water to accumulate and stand on his or her property without treating it so as to effectively prevent the breeding of mosquitoes. Subsection (B) bars the escape of dense smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, dust or gases in quantities that endanger the health, comfort and safety of the public or damage property or business.

Subsection (D) requires anyone holding a dead animal not intended for food to promptly bury it or notify the Health Officer, who directs disposal. Subsection (E) bars parking, locating or occupying a house trailer or portable building unless it meets plumbing, electrical, sanitary and building provisions, the location conforms to the city's zoning provisions, and the City Recorder has issued a permit. Subsection (F) prohibits storing items such as dilapidated furniture, appliances, tires, machinery and building materials in a rusted, wrecked, junked, dismantled or inoperative condition on or adjacent to any property, or in any public roadway or alleyway, unless they are completely enclosed within a building, dwelling or opaque fencing or screening.

Weed height sits in a different section. Section 13-102(C) sets twelve inches for IPMC Section 302.4, and the exemption in § 13-102(E)(2) speaks of tracts of land containing a minimum of one acre. When the city acts on a parcel, the cost is charged against the real estate as a lien under § 13-102(D), and § 13-103(C) directs the City Recorder to keep the files and records on those liens and to include the amount in the owner's ad valorem tax statements.