Landscaping Rules in Indiana (2026)

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

In the City of Bloomington, tree canopies must clear fifteen feet above any street surface and eight feet above any…

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

In the City of Columbus, Indiana, trees, shrubbery, hedges and other plants at every street corner must be cut and…

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…

Owners of corner lots in the City of Gary must keep trees trimmed clear of vision between six feet and three feet above…

In the City of Greenwood, Indiana, Greenwood General Ordinances § 6-346 requires owners to trim any tree or shrub that…

Hammond's Park Department, under Board of Park Commissioners direction, controls trimming of public trees, but § 105.03…

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…

In the City of Kokomo, Kokomo Code of Ordinances § 97.07 makes it unlawful for the owner, occupant, or manager of a lot…

In the City of Lafayette, Indiana, trees and shrubs along a street, alley or sidewalk must be trimmed to keep limbs at…

City of Muncie property owners must keep tree branches trimmed at least ten feet above any public sidewalk and 14.5…

Noblesville's Urban Forester can order pruning of any privately owned tree that overhangs a street, sidewalk or public…

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

Westfield requires 14 feet of clearance over streets and eight feet over sidewalks for any tree or other vegetation…

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

In the City of Lafayette, Indiana, removing, cutting or planting a tree or shrub on public property, or in a public…

Removing a city-owned or street tree in Muncie requires prior permission from the Urban Forester, under Muncie City…

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…

In the City of Bloomington, cutting, removing, or treating a protected tree, or excavating within its drip line…

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

In the City of Columbus, Indiana, Chapter 12.20 governs removal of public trees. The city removes unhealthy, unsafe or…

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…

In the City of Gary, it is unlawful to trim, remove, plant, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, flower or plant…

Removing a public tree from the tree lawn in front of a Hammond property, for construction or any other reason…

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…

Before clearing land for new construction in Noblesville, a developer generally can't remove trees, vegetation or…

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…

Westfield puts the duty to maintain and remove trees or shrubs in the street-to-sidewalk planting strip on the abutting…

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…

In unincorporated Bartholomew County, § 94.03 declares weeds or other rank vegetation a public nuisance the moment it…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 6.06.050 bars any lot owner in the City of Bloomington from letting weeds, grass or…

Boone County's housing code defines WEEDS as vegetation reaching 12 inches or more that creates a rat harborage or…

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

In the City of Columbus, Indiana, any vegetable matter taller than twelve inches counts as weeds and rank vegetation…

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…

In the City of Gary every property owner must cut grass and weeds so they never rise above eight inches, covering the…

The City of Greenwood, Indiana requires every property to stay free of weeds and rank vegetation visible from the…

Hammond bans vegetation, including grass and weeds, over 6 inches tall on any improved or unimproved lot in the city…

In the City of Kokomo, Code of Ordinances § 95.01 bars weeds and rank vegetation from averaging more than eight inches…

In the City of Lafayette, Indiana, lawn grass, weeds or other unmanaged vegetation cannot exceed ten inches under…

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

In unincorporated Morgan County, Indiana, the Board of Commissioners caps weeds and rank vegetation at 12 inches in…

In the City of Muncie, Indiana, owners of any real property inside the corporate limits must cut or remove weeds and…

City of Noblesville Code § 93.05 caps weeds and grass at six inches on real estate in the city. Owners or tenants who…

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…

Warrick County's public nuisance ordinance defines WEEDS and RANK VEGETATION as growth nine inches or more in height…

Westfield caps weeds and rank vegetation at 12 inches on every parcel in the city and bans debris outright. A written…

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

In the City of Bloomington, the mayor and the utilities director can declare emergency water-use restrictions during a…

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

During a declared water conservation emergency, Lafayette can bar residents from sprinkling lawns and gardens, washing…

Noblesville does not restrict lawn watering under normal conditions, but once the Mayor declares a water warning or…

The City of Westfield, Indiana imposes odd-even lawn watering days only after the mayor declares a water warning or…

In the City of Lafayette, Indiana, rainwater collection and conveyance systems are allowed under the city's Property…

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

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance requires every green infrastructure facility, meaning detention basins…

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…

Lafayette exempts deliberately planted, maintained native and managed natural landscapes from the city's 10-inch weed…

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…

In the City of Bloomington, a compost pile kept as part of a noncommercial urban agriculture use cannot exceed six feet…

Greenwood's Unified Development Ordinance allows compost bins as an accessory use inside community gardens citywide…

Composting is allowed in Hammond, Indiana under Hammond Code of Ordinances § 94.023, but every pile is capped at 3 feet…

The City of Columbus, Indiana lets residents compost at home under two printed conditions: food scraps need an area…

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…

City of Noblesville Code § 93.06 treats accumulated junk and trash as a nuisance but carves out a specific exception…

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

In the City of Muncie, composting yard and organic waste at your own residence or farm needs no zoning permit. City…

In unincorporated Warrick County, Indiana, County Code § 136.02(B) lets residents pile yard waste on their own property…