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The City of Minot acknowledges the need to enforce a certain standard of property maintenance and to ensure a reasonable quality of life for the city's residents and neighborhoods. Citizens play an important role in keeping our community attractive, clean and safe.
- Visual nuisances can include...?
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- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- Cast-off furniture
- Household items
- Junked cars
- Discarded building materials
- Dead trees
- Weeds and grasses in excess of eight inches high
- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- Can I prevent a visual nuisance with a screen?
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- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- In the case of auto wreckers, junk yards, scrap processors, dealers in used auto parts, and auto and machinery repair businesses, all operations including the storage of material to be processed, in process, and already processed must either be conducted within a completely enclosed building, or the screening required in under (a)(2) of this section must consist of a reasonably opaque fence at least eight (8) feet high, kept in good repair, which completely surrounds the area or areas in which processing operations take place.
- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- Grass: How tall is too tall?
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- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-3
- Grass or weeks in excess of eight (8) inches high
- After a report, the homeowner will be contacted by letter and a follow up
- About 2 weeks from notification to cut
- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-3
- Vehicles: What can be done when they're abandoned?
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- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- Junked, abandoned, disassembled, inoperative or unregistered automobiles can be reported
- This does not apply to vehicles which are currently licensed, registered, and operable
- Code of Ordinances: Section 22-1
- Vehicles: Operation of off-highway vehicles?
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- Code of Ordinances: Section 20-32 and 20-33
- Vehicle must include: mirrors, horn, speedometer, odometer, tail/brake lights, headlights, turn signals, mufflers, rubber tires, steering wheel, brakes, roll cage, suspension, metal license plate centered on the rear of the off-highway vehicle with a. license plate light, seatbelt, windshield
- Operator must be at least 16 years of age
- Operator must have a valid Driver's License
- All occupants must use one factory installed seatbelt per individual
- Headlights and tail/brake lights must be on at all times
- Speed limits and road rules apply
- Must have valid insurance
- Code of Ordinances: Section 20-32 and 20-33
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Nicole Mathieson
Code Enforcement Specialist