The county sets no vacant-lot maintenance rule; your city or township does. Holland requires all exterior property areas and premises, occupied or vacant, to stay clean and free of accumulated rubbish and garbage.
Michigan counties do not run property-maintenance code, so a vacant parcel is governed by the city or township where it sits. The City of Holland's exterior-premises standard applies to all lots and premises regardless of occupancy, and its grass-and-weeds nuisance rule (Chapter 19) reaches any lot or parcel. Townships adopt comparable IPMC-based codes. Owners of vacant lots remain responsible for mowing, debris removal, and drainage; enforcement is by the municipal code office, not miottawa.org.
Holland posts notice and can abate an overgrown or debris-strewn vacant lot at the owner's expense, adding the cost as a lien.
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