Westland, MI

When Westland approves removal of protected trees above the 20 percent DBH cap, or any landmark tree, the zoning ordinance requires replacement trees planted on-site under a set ratio.

Westland restricts lawn, garden, and shrub sprinkling to an odd-even day schedule from May 1 through October 1, with watering banned during morning and evening peak-demand hours.

Westland requires owners to trim tree branches overhanging a street or right-of-way to keep at least eight feet of clearance and remove dead, diseased, or dangerous limbs that endanger…

Westland's property maintenance code caps weeds and grass at eight inches, with a 10-day cure notice for growth up to ten inches and just 72 hours once it tops ten inches before the…

Westland allows electric vehicle parking spaces to count toward required parking, but caps that credit at 10 percent of total required spaces.

Westland treats storing a junked or unlicensed automobile on private property as a blight factor the owner must remove within ten days of a notice.

Westland's zoning ordinance sets siting, size, and access standards for commercial loading berths, barring them within 30 feet of a street intersection and restricting vehicle repair…

Westland's mayor can declare a weather emergency and ban parking on both sides of every city street once snow or ice reaches about four inches deep, with violators towed.

Westland bans using a public street to park a vehicle for sale, repairs, advertising, or vending, restricting streets to genuine parking rather than a storefront or workshop.

Westland forbids parking a vehicle on any street for storage purposes beyond 48 hours, so a car cannot sit on the street indefinitely, overnight after overnight.

Westland Code Sec. 98-6 treats any vehicle parked contrary to the Code as a nuisance that the Westland Police Department may tow to a place of safekeeping, and requires the department…

Westland's zoning ordinance bans parking in a required front yard beyond 40 percent of that yard's area and requires driveways to be hard-surfaced: loose gravel and asphalt millings…

Westland bars parking or storing a commercial vehicle over 10,001 pounds GVWR in any residential or business district for more than one hour, outside a short list of exceptions.

Westland keeps boats, campers, and RVs off residential lawns and easements and bans them in front of the front building line, but allows temporary driveway parking up to 48 hours a…

Westland bans selling or dyeing baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl and rabbits as novelty pets, though breeders and stores selling for legitimate commercial breeding are exempt.

Westland's zoning ordinance permits veterinary clinics by right in most commercial districts but excludes overnight boarding: a clinic with exterior or interior kennels no longer…

Westland requires microchipping only for dogs already declared vicious or dangerous, plus $100,000 liability insurance and city registration, under § 18-43.

Westland doesn't ban breeds by name: it declares a dog 'vicious or dangerous' by behavior and imposes registration, insurance and confinement duties under § 18-42.

Westland bans keeping any wild or exotic animal within city limits and bans their sale too, unless the seller is a pet shop licensed under Michigan's Public Act 287 of 1969.

Westland permits horses and other equine on residential lots that provide at least a half-acre per animal, keep the pasture behind the rear building line, and fence it 4 to 6 feet high.

Westland requires dogs to be licensed, rabies-vaccinated, and leashed anytime they leave the owner's fenced property, under City Code § 18-11(1).

Westland's city code bans hunting, harming, or killing any wild bird, animal, or reptile in city parks, and forbids removing nests, eggs, or young: with a narrow carve-out for venomous…

Westland lets a household keep up to three cats over four months old; a fourth cat, just like a fourth dog, triggers the private-kennel licensing requirement.

Westland bans feeding wildlife on any private or public property and treats ground-feeding as a nuisance per se under City Code § 18-22.

Westland caps unlicensed pet-keeping at three dogs or three cats per household; harboring more without a kennel license violates City Code § 18-11(5).

Michigan sets no statewide beekeeper license or registration. Under the Apiary Law, 1976 PA 412, MDARD runs voluntary hive inspections and holds standby authority to quarantine bee…

Westland's zoning ordinance forbids transferring, conveying, renting, or leasing an accessory dwelling unit separately from the single-family home on the same lot, recorded as a…

Westland requires a zoning compliance review and a valuation-based building permit fee for any shed, on top of a plan review fee, before construction begins.

Applicants for a Westland accessory dwelling unit must file a scaled site plan, floor plan, and elevations with the Planning Department, which the Planning Director alone approves.

Westland requires the property owner to occupy either the accessory dwelling unit or the principal home before an ADU can get a certificate of occupancy, recorded as a deed restriction.

Group day care homes in Westland need a Planning Department site plan, a fenced 500-square-foot play area, and must cap operating hours at 16 hours a day under the city's zoning…

Westland caps home occupations at 25 percent of a dwelling's floor area, bars use of accessory buildings, and requires zero visible evidence of the business from outside the home under…

Westland caps any home-based business at ten business-related vehicle trips a day and no more than two visitors on-site at once, with all resulting parking handled off-street under the…

Michigan's Cottage Food Law lets you sell qualifying non-hazardous homemade foods without a license or inspection as long as gross sales stay under $50,000 a year. A $75,000 cap…

Michigan has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The word "microenterprise" returns zero results in a full-text search of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and the only…

Westland bars vehicle horns and signal devices from creating loud or harsh sound audible within 50 feet or inside nearby homes, except as a genuine danger signal or from emergency…

Westland makes it unlawful to harbor an animal that constantly cries, barks or makes other loud noises annoying the neighborhood, enforceable by animal control citation.

Westland bars radios, TVs, musical instruments, and other sound-amplifying devices from playing loud enough to be plainly audible in another dwelling or 50 feet away, as a misdemeanor…

Wayne County caps nighttime noise at 60 decibels measured at the property line, or 100 feet if unmeasured, under the countywide Nuisance Noise Ordinance enforced with escalating civil…

Wayne County bars loud, amplified sound audible off your property from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights, and from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, unless…

Michigan's Aeronautics Code preempts local regulation of aircraft operations and noise, leaving control over aircraft noise to state and federal authorities under MCL 259.1 et seq.

Westland requires a building department permit before constructing any fence in the city, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, under the fence article the city council…

Westland only allows a privacy fence in an interior lot's side yard if the neighbor consents in writing; rear-yard privacy fences, defined as opaque fencing, need no such consent but…

Westland lets homeowners build retaining walls, garden walls, steps, and paved terraces up to three feet above finished grade inside required front, side, and rear yards without extra…

Westland bans electrified fences and any electrical attachment on a fence in every zoning district, and prohibits barbed wire fencing outright in both residential and commercial areas.

Westland lets neighbors split a boundary fence's cost and upkeep by written mutual consent, or a building department safety finding or ownership survey can substitute when there's no…

Westland requires public pools to fully turn over their water every eight hours and hold chlorine between 0.4 and 0.6 ppm with pH between 7.0 and 7.5; private pools follow an 18-hour…

No one may build, install, enlarge, or alter a swimming pool in Westland without a permit from the code official, and a final inspection with the pool filled and filtering is required…

Westland bans consumer fireworks outside specific holiday windows, bars use near occupied buildings and on others' property without consent, and fines violators up to $1,000 per…

Every dwelling unit owner in Westland, Wayne County, Michigan must install a smoke detector, and proof of installation is required before the city issues a building permit for…

Wayne County's Air Pollution ordinance bars anyone from installing, using or operating a waste-burning device, such as a backyard burn barrel or trash incinerator, to burn garbage…

Michigan requires plan review and a state certificate from LARA's Bureau of Fire Services Storage Tank Division before installing any LP-gas system with a single 2,000-gallon tank, a…

Michigan imposes a 6% use tax on short-term rental accommodations under 30 days. Hosts must register with Treasury and remit tax monthly or quarterly, regardless of where they operate.

Westland makes it a misdemeanor to create loud, unreasonable noise that disturbs neighbors' comfort or peace, including amplified music and gatherings audible 50 feet away or inside…

Westland's disorderly-persons ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to loiter around illegal businesses, vice locations, or police and court buildings, or to jostle and crowd people…

Westland bans drinking alcohol on any public highway citywide, and bars all liquor except beer or wine in unlicensed parks or amusement places.

Westland prohibits consuming or smoking marihuana in any public place, including parks and sidewalks, and bars smoking it anywhere the property owner, occupier or manager has posted a…

Westland makes it a misdemeanor to urinate or defecate in any public place within the city outside an appropriate toilet facility, charged as disorderly conduct.

Westland doesn't define e-bike classes, but bars electric bicycles fitted with both electric and gas-powered motors from using any designated bike lane, backed by a misdemeanor penalty.

Westland bars motor vehicles from driving on, crossing, or parking in a bicycle path, and lets cyclists ride within the lane instead of hugging the curb.

Michigan does not legalise golf carts on public streets statewide, and it does not leave the question to every council either. MCL 257.657a switches street use on only where the local…

Westland city parks are open to the public only from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, except in emergencies or when the parks and recreation director sets different hours.

Westland bars children under 14 from public places between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. without an adult, and bars minors under 17 from loitering in public between midnight and 6 a.m.

Any Westland establishment selling sexually explicit books, videos or magazines must shield them from public view, keep them out of windows, and restrict access to buyers 18 and older.

Westland's zoning ordinance flatly excludes vehicle repair or painting from the home-occupation category, so residents can't run an auto-repair business out of their house or garage as…

Westland bars new retail tobacco, hookah and vape shops from locating within 500 feet of any place of worship, school, park, playground, or place where minors gather.

Westland's zoning ordinance classifies tattoo artist establishments as a personal service use, permitted by right in five of the city's six commercial/mixed-use zoning districts: every…

Westland treats pawnbrokers as secondhand dealers requiring a city clerk license, and lets police place up to 90-day investigative holds on pawned property suspected of being stolen.

Westland requires a separate city clerk license for every massage establishment location, plus state-licensed therapists, background checks, and closure between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Westland requires anyone dealing in secondhand goods or junk to obtain a city clerk license, submit fingerprints, and log every purchase in a police-inspectable record book before…

Westland's zoning ordinance, not a private HOA, requires architectural review of exterior materials for every new principal building and major addition before a permit issues.

Michigan condominium associations get an automatic statutory lien for unpaid assessments under MCL 559.208, foreclosable like a real-estate mortgage. Michigan has no general non-condo…

Michigan's Condominium Act gives co-owners a records right and almost nothing else on meeting mechanics. MCL 559.157(1) makes the books, records, contracts and financial statements…

Michigan condo associations enforce the master deed, bylaws, and rules through MCL 559.165, which makes compliance mandatory, backed by fines, injunctions, and liens. Non-condo HOAs…

Michigan's Homeowners' Energy Policy Act, 2024 PA 68, took effect April 2, 2025 and made any homeowners' association provision that bans an "energy-saving improvement or modification"…

Michigan protects home EV charging through the Homeowners' Energy Policy Act, 2024 PA 68, which took effect April 2, 2025. MCL 559.303(c)(ix) counts "electric vehicle supply equipment"…

Michigan's flag protection is one sentence long and narrower than most. MCL 559.156a bars a developer or association of co-owners from prohibiting a co-owner from displaying a single…

The Michigan Condominium Act lets associations levy fines, but only after due process. Under MCL 559.206 a condo association may impose late charges and, after notice and a hearing…

A Michigan condominium association can foreclose its assessment lien by advertisement, meaning it never has to file a lawsuit, but MCL 559.208(3) bars it from starting until it records…

Michigan runs the opposite way from states that shield owners who rent. MCL 559.212(1) of the Condominium Act says that after the transitional control date the association of co-owners…

Westland caps removal of protected trees at 20 percent of a parcel's total tree diameter before mandatory replacement planting kicks in.

Westland requires new homeowners and anyone replacing a tree to plant balled-and-burlapped Red Sunset Maple, Norway Maple, or Bradford Pear trees in the parkway before a certificate of…

Westland designates certain large, healthy trees as landmark trees that are fully regulated: every landmark tree removed must be replaced, with no percentage exemption.

Westland requires anyone soliciting, canvassing, or peddling door to door to get a license from the city clerk before doing business in the city.

Westland bars solicitors, canvassers, and peddlers from approaching any home posted with a no-soliciting sign or notice, or from calling between 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.

Westland's historic district commission designates historic landmarks and must approve a certificate before any exterior alteration, move, or demolition of a landmark structure can…

Westland adopted the State Construction Code's Plumbing Code by ordinance and administers all plumbing permitting, inspection, and enforcement itself.

Westland adopted the State Construction Code's Electrical Code by ordinance and administers all electrical permitting, inspection, and enforcement itself.

Owners of registered vacant buildings in Westland must pay for a city safety inspection and certify by affidavit that key building systems are sound or safely disconnected.

Westland's zoning ordinance encourages, but doesn't mandate, LEED-NC or EnergyStar certification for new non-residential buildings, with specific LEED material credits recommended when…

Westland adopted the Michigan Building Code by ordinance and administers all permitting and inspection for interior renovations and remodels itself.

Wayne County, Michigan runs a childhood lead testing program under Code of Ordinances Ch. 151, screening children ages six months to six years for lead poisoning countywide, regardless…

Westland enforces FEMA flood insurance maps and the state Building Code's flood-hazard provisions citywide, with the Building Director-Inspections responsible for administration and…

Westland requires an approved grading plan before it issues a building permit, plus a paid grading certificate before any certificate of occupancy is granted.

Westland requires a stormwater construction approval before any regulated construction activity affecting roads, city drains or storm sewers, enforced under the city's Stormwater…

Michigan's Part 323 NREPA preempts local coastal rules in designated high-risk erosion, flood-risk, and environmental areas along the Great Lakes.

Westland, Michigan requires a written permit before any curb cut or sidewalk driveway crossing is made to reach private property from a public street.

Westland, Michigan places the duty to build, maintain and repair abutting sidewalks and side-drive aprons on the adjacent landowner, with city repair-and-assess power if they don't.

Westland bars placing articles or obstructions in streets and sidewalks without a permit, with narrow exceptions for loading and parking.

Westland deems any building or grounds that harbor rats, mice, or other vermin a blighted and dangerous condition subject to city abatement action.

Westland restricts street food and sidewalk vendors to daytime hours, banning sales between 9 p.m. and 9 or 10 a.m. depending on the season under the city's street vendor ordinance.

Food trucks operating in Westland must obtain an annual license from the city clerk, backed by a state food service license and liability insurance.

Westland food trucks may only operate on private property with the owner's written permission, and need city council approval to vend on public streets or city property.

Westland requires every landowner to prevent noxious weeds from growing on their lot; unchecked growth is declared a public nuisance and the city can cut them and bill the owner.

Westland orders owners of blighted or dangerous buildings to repair or demolish within 90 days of written notice, following a public show-cause hearing.

Westland gives property owners 24 hours to clear or salt sidewalk snow and ice, with city removal and billing for holdouts.

Westland charges a $25 electrical permit fee per solar photovoltaic system under 5,000 kW inverter capacity, and $35 for larger systems, under the city's master fee schedule.

Since April 2, 2025, Michigan's Homeowners' Energy Policy Act (2024 PA 68, MCL 559.301 to 559.317) makes any provision of a homeowners' association agreement that prohibits or has the…

Westland requires yard waste, grass, leaves, brush, and branches, bundled to four feet long and three inches thick, tied in 60-pound bundles or 40-pound paper bags, set five feet from…

Westland requires trash, recycling, and yard waste receptacles to sit on private property between collections, not in alleys or on public property, unless the building itself extends…

Westland requires oversized trash cut to 3 feet and bundled under 60 pounds before curbside collection, with fees applied.

Westland collects solid waste weekly and recyclables every two weeks at the curb in front of each residence.

Westland bans dumping litter, refuse or garbage on any private property, occupied or not, and makes unauthorized dumping in a private dumpster a misdemeanor under Section 42-42 of the…

Wayne County bars landfills from accepting a Michigan municipality's waste unless that municipality certifies it runs a recycling program consistent with the county's Solid Waste…

Westland's zoning ordinance classifies Tree of Heaven as an invasive species, exempting it from the tree-preservation permit and replacement rules that protect other trees.

Westland's vegetation code labels poplar, willow, box elder, and elm as 'prohibited species': trees excluded from the short list of species approved for new-construction and…

Westland limits yard sale signs to six square feet, five feet tall, three per sale, and bans placement in the right-of-way or within three feet of a property line.

Westland limits temporary window signs to storefronts under 10,000 square feet, and caps combined temporary and permanent window signage at 30 percent of the window's total area.

Westland bans posting political signs, along with handbills and other advertising matter, on streets, sidewalks, trees, utility poles, and other public property citywide.

Westland allows temporary holiday and seasonal decorations for up to 90 consecutive days, after which they must come down, and caps residential rope or neon front-yard lighting at the…

Westland's zoning ordinance sets minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks by residential district: from 25 feet in front for R-2 and R-3 lots up to 35 feet in the rear for every…

Westland caps single-family and mixed residential buildings at two stories and 30 feet under the zoning ordinance's Table 4.4.1, with taller limits allowed for townhouse and…

Westland limits single-family and mixed residential lots to 30 percent building coverage under the zoning ordinance's Table 4.4.1: the same cap applies to R-1, R-2, and R-3 districts…

Westland requires Planning Department approval for sidewalk cafes, City Council sign-off if the cafe sits on a public sidewalk, and a 5-foot clear path for pedestrians.

Westland requires city council approval for street fairs and temporary sales events, capping most permits at seven days and requiring a performance guarantee before the event starts.

Westland has no standalone block-party ordinance; street closures for events run through the city's general street-use permit process.

Groups reserving Westland park facilities for picnics, parties, performances, or civic activities must get a permit from the parks and recreation director first.

Westland bars marijuana retailers and provisioning centers within 1,000 feet of a K-12 school, 5,000 feet of another marijuana business, and 250 feet of residentially zoned property.

Westland confines marijuana retailers and provisioning centers to four commercial zoning districts and requires a special land use approval on top of the missing zoning ordinance's…

Michigan's MRTMA allows adults 21+ to grow up to 12 plants at home, preempting local bans on personal cultivation.

Westland requires a city clerk permit before any yard sale, capping most households at three sales and eight total days per calendar year.

Westland's housing code requires every dwelling, owner-occupied or rented, to be weathertight and rodentproof, structurally sound, and heated to at least 70 degrees.

Every rental dwelling in Westland, Michigan must be registered with the building department, and owners who don't live within 30 miles must name a local responsible agent.

Before evicting, a Michigan landlord must serve the correct written demand: 7 days for nonpayment of rent, 7 days for serious health hazards, extensive damage, or physical violence…

Michigan eviction procedure is governed uniformly by the Summary Proceedings Act. Landlords must follow statutory notice and court process under MCL 600.5701 through 600.5759.

Michigan has no statute requiring a landlord to give advance notice before entering a rented unit. A tenant's protection comes instead from the lease terms and from MCL 600.2918, which…

Either party may end a Michigan estate at will or month-to-month tenancy by giving one month's notice. When rent is payable at intervals shorter than three months, the notice need only…

Michigan has no statewide rent control and no cap on rent increases. A 1988 state law, MCL 123.411, bars every local government from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance…

Michigan's Landlord-Tenant Act caps a residential security deposit at one and one-half months' rent. A landlord who keeps any of the deposit for damages must mail the tenant an…

Michigan requires 15 years of adverse possession before a squatter can claim title to land. Under MCL 600.5801 the owner's action to recover land is barred after 15 years in most…

Westland schedules rental dwelling inspections on a recurring citywide cycle rather than waiting for complaints, giving owners written notice and 14 days to book an appointment.

A tenant complaint to Westland's building department can trigger a rental unit inspection, with the city able to require the owner to provide leasehold access once a complaint is filed.

Westland caps exterior lighting at one footcandle at the property line and requires fixtures to be aimed and deflected away from neighboring properties to prevent glare.

Wayne County residents who believe they've faced discrimination in housing, employment or public accommodations file a written, notarized complaint with the county's Human Rights…

Wayne County levies a 1% excise tax on charges for accommodations provided to transient guests countywide, funding the stadium and land development fund.

Michigan Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act (PA 436 of 2016, MCL §259.301–259.327) creates a comprehensive state framework for drones and preempts local ordinances regulating UAS ownership…

Michigan minimum wage is set by the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (PA 337 of 2018). The Local Labor Regulatory Limitation Act (PA 105 of 2015, MCL §123.1381+) preempts local…

Michigan preempts local paid leave ordinances; statewide paid sick leave is governed by the Earned Sick Time Act under MCL 408.961.

Michigan's Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act preempts local predictive scheduling and fair workweek ordinances under MCL 123.1387.

Michigan issues Concealed Pistol Licenses (CPLs) under MCL 28.425 series, with statewide rules that local governments cannot override or supplement.

Michigan firearms preemption (MCL §123.1101–123.1104) prohibits local units of government from imposing any ordinance, regulation, or policy on the purchase, registration, ownership…

Michigan law under MCL 750.227 makes it a felony to carry a concealed pistol in a vehicle without a valid Concealed Pistol License or other statutory exemption.

Michigan's Gaming Control and Revenue Act reserves commercial casino gaming to cities whose local legislative body passes an ordinance approving it and signs a certified development…

Michigan bars bingo, raffles, charity games, numeral games, and millionaire parties unless a licensed 'qualified organization' runs them under the Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman Bingo…

Michigan's penal code makes no exception for private, social, or "friendly" gambling. MCL 750.301 criminalizes accepting money contingent on an uncertain event's outcome: full stop…

Michigan legalized internet sports betting under the Lawful Sports Betting Act, but the Michigan Gaming Control Board can license only two kinds of operators: existing commercial…

Michigan does not run sobriety checkpoints, and the reason is unusual. Michigan's own checkpoint programme was the one the United States Supreme Court upheld under the Fourth Amendment…

Michigan has no statute granting an express right to film police, and no statute forbidding it either. What governs is the 1966 eavesdropping chapter of the Michigan Penal Code, and…

Michigan has never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute. Nothing in the Michigan Compiled Laws makes it an offence to stand on a sidewalk and decline to give a police officer…

Michigan is one of the few states where the answer to a roadside search question is written into a statute rather than left to case law. Section 5 of the Michigan Regulation and…

The Michigan Right to Farm Act (Act 93 of 1981, MCL §286.471 et seq.) provides nuisance protection for qualifying commercial farms following Generally Accepted Agricultural and…

Michigan PA 389 of 2016 (MCL 445.572b) prohibits local governments from banning, taxing, or regulating plastic bags and other auxiliary containers.

Michigan set the minimum age to buy, possess, or use tobacco and vapor products at 21 through PA 167 of 2022, which amended the Youth Tobacco Act (MCL 722.641), aligning with federal…

Michigan currently has no statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vape products; an attempted 2019 emergency ban was struck down in court.

Michigan runs a closed list rather than a list of banned colors. MCL 257.698(4) provides that unless a lamp is both covered and unlit, a vehicle on Michigan highways must not carry a…

Michigan sets no measured windshield zone for a camera and no sticker size limit. What it regulates is the screen. MCL 257.708b(1) prohibits operating a motor vehicle with a television…

Michigan bans lane splitting in plain words. MCL 257.660(5) says a person operating a motorcycle, moped, low-speed vehicle, electric personal assistive mobility device or electric…

Michigan does not regulate license plate covers by naming them. It regulates the result. MCL 257.225(2) requires that the plate be maintained free from foreign materials that obscure…

Radar detectors are legal in a private vehicle in Michigan, and the state says so in the statute rather than by silence. MCL 750.508 restricts carrying a police-frequency radio…

Michigan does not run a studded tire season the way its neighbours do. MCL 257.710(b) forbids operating on a highway any tire carrying a block, stud, flange, cleat, spike or other…

Michigan does not set a visible light transmission percentage for any window. MCL 257.709(1)(a) instead bans film outright on the front windshield and on the side windows and sidewings…