Kent County has no countywide grass-height limit. Statewide, Michigan's Noxious Weed Act requires owners to destroy noxious weeds, and each city or township sets its own tall-grass mowing limit (commonly 8-12 inches). Report overgrowth to your municipal code office.
Grass and weed height on private property in Kent County is governed by two layers, neither of them a county ordinance. First, Michigan's Noxious Weed Act (Act 359 of 1941) obligates landowners to destroy listed noxious weeds; MCL 247.62 lists the covered plants, and a commissioner of noxious weeds may enter and cut them at the owner's expense. Second, each city, village, or township adopts its own tall-grass or weed ordinance with a specific height trigger and complaint process. Kent County itself does not set a lawn-height number or issue tall-grass citations for parcels inside a municipality, so the enforceable limit is your local ordinance.
The noxious weed commissioner may cut weeds and charge the cost to the owner's property taxes; municipal tall-grass ordinances add their own fines and abatement liens.
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