Landscaping Rules in Indiana (2026)

Anderson Municipal Light & Power (AMLP) trims tree branches near power and fiber lines within its easement. Outside the…

Carmel property owners must trim any tree or shrub overhanging a sidewalk, street, or public place that impedes…

Trimming a street, park, or public tree in Evansville needs Tree Advisory Board sign-off for anything beyond routine…

Property owners in Fishers must trim, prune, or remove any tree that extends onto a public right-of-way, sidewalk, or…

Property owners along any Fort Wayne street must trim or remove trees, shrubs, and plants that are unsightly…

Hendricks County requires owners of trees, shrubs, and other plant life along streets, alleys, sidewalks, and highways…

A City of Indianapolis flora permit is required for any tree planting, landscaping, spraying, bracing, removal, or…

Trees and shrubs overhanging a South Bend street, whether in the tree lawn or on an abutting lot, must be trimmed to…

Allen County has no ordinance requiring a permit to trim trees on private property. County tree rules appear only in…

Allen County requires no tree-removal permit for private homeowners. Tree protection appears only in the Zoning…

Indiana requires no state tree-removal permit, and Anderson publishes no general private-tree permit. Street trees…

You may remove trees on your own private property, but trees in the tree lawn between the street and sidewalk are…

Public tree removal permits in Evansville come only from the Tree Advisory Board or its agent, must spell out the work…

Removing a city street tree in Fishers, one planted in the strip between the street and sidewalk, requires a permit…

Trimming, removing, or planting any tree, shrub, or vine on a public street, park, or parkway in Fort Wayne requires…

Removing a tree in the Indianapolis public right-of-way (the lawn strip between street and sidewalk) requires a City…

There is no county-wide permit to remove a healthy tree from private residential land in unincorporated Lake County…

When a developer opts into Porter County's UDO tree-conservation credit, no tree with a trunk over six inches DBH or…

No one may remove, destroy, spray or do surgery on a tree or shrub under the Board of Park Commissioners' jurisdiction…

Indiana Code § 15-16-8-3 requires every person who owns or possesses real estate to destroy detrimental plants, Canada…

Under Revised Code Section 575-11 of the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, it is unlawful for…

Allen County regulates weeds and rank vegetation as a public health hazard under Title 10, Article 12 rather than by a…

Anderson defines a weed nuisance as grass in excess of 12 inches tall plus rank vegetation. Owners get a notice with a…

Carmel City Code § 6-88(c) requires owners to cut and remove weeds and rank vegetation that exceed an average height of…

In unincorporated Elkhart County, plant life over 8 inches on a residential parcel of 3 acres or less violates the…

Evansville bans rank vegetation and overgrown weeds on any lot in the city, with cultivated farmland, established…

Fishers, Indiana property owners must cut grass and weeds once they exceed eight inches tall, or the city mows the lot…

Fort Wayne caps weeds and grass at 9 inches. Taller growth is an environmental public nuisance the city can order cut…

The county does not set a single grass-height number countywide; the Lake County Public Works Department fields weed…

South Bend caps weeds, grass, and rank vegetation on private property at nine inches. City Code Sec. 19-33 makes it…

In unincorporated St. Joseph County, front-yard weeds and rank vegetation over 9 inches violate the county's Weed and…

Vanderburgh County caps weed and grass growth at nine inches on any real property in the unincorporated area, improved…

Fishers bans sprinkler and irrigation watering of lawns during a Mayor-declared water warning or emergency, allowing…

Indianapolis water is supplied by Citizens Energy Group, which asks customers to limit lawn watering to one to two…

Rainwater harvesting is legal in Indiana with no state or Allen County ban. Residential rain barrels for garden and…

Porter County's Unified Development Ordinance requires native landscaping only inside the Scenic Roadway Overlay (SRO)…

Large-scale solar farms in Tippecanoe County must plant pollinator-friendly, native vegetation around and under the…

Evansville lets property owners plant managed natural landscapes of Indiana native plants instead of turf grass, as…

Vanderburgh County's weed ordinance caps vegetation at nine inches, but § 8.16.100(A)(1) exempts a "managed natural…

Allen County does not restrict native or naturalized plantings on private property. On new development, the Zoning…

No Indiana statute or Elkhart County ordinance restricts native or drought-tolerant planting. You may replace lawn with…

The City of Indianapolis encourages native planting areas and offers a free registration that exempts a properly…

Fishers' Property Maintenance Code defines artificial turf and sod made for residential use as an accepted landscape…

Allen County allows backyard composting, but the health code requires compost piles to be maintained so they do not…

Anderson's Water Pollution Control Utility runs a Yard and Garden Recycling Center at 2000 W. Eighth St. that…

Evansville, Indiana doesn't ban backyard composting, but any compost pile on residential or commercial property must be…

Fort Wayne allows residential compost piles with no permit or bin design mandated, but requires them screened from…

Vanderburgh County's solid waste code defines composting as the "controlled and intentional biological decomposition of…