Alachua County Ordinances

Unkept and excessively overgrown vegetation on a property, including dead or non-viable trees which could fall onto adjacent properties or roadways, can amount to a nuisance, hazard, or a danger, and can pose a risk to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens and surrounding properties. Such conditions tend to be a breeding place for mosquitoes, vermin, or other pest that are capable of transmitting diseases to humans, create fire hazards, or environmental hazards, or create potential windstorm hazards, or tend to adversely affect and impair the economic welfare of adjacent properties. Abatement of such conditions is hereby found and declared to be for a public purpose.

The accumulation of junk and/or the storage of unserviceable vehicles on privately owned lands, except in lawfully established and maintained junkyards, garbage or waste disposal sites, or sanitary landfills, creates health hazards and attractive nuisances and impairs the economic welfare of adjoining properties. Such accumulation of junk and/or storage of unserviceable vehicles in violation of this Article is hereby prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance. 

It shall be unlawful for any person, including any owner of real property subject to this Chapter, to create, keep, maintain, or allow the existence of any hazardous land or dangerous structure, as defined in Section 74.15, in or on such real property.