Clean Yards By-law
Town By-law
This page highlights information contained within Midland's Clean Yards By-law, based on frequently asked questions. Please read Clean Yards By-law for full information.
By-law Number: 2025-23
Last Updated: 2025
Purpose: Requires and regulates the filling up, draining, cleaning and clearing of any grounds, yards or vacant lots.
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| Purpose | Requires and regulates the filling up, draining, cleaning and clearing of any grounds, yards or vacant lots. |
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General Provisions
Property (including vacant land) should be free from all unsafe conditions, adequately drained, graded, clean and cleared up. This includes the removal, trimming or cutting of grass, weeds or ground cover more than 20 centimetres (8 inches) in height from June 1 to December 1 annually.
Waste Collection
No person shall:
- set out any waste for curbside collection services unless it is in an approved container, properly sorted and prepared as required under Simcoe County's Solid Waste Management By-law.
- allow or permit any liquid matter from waste to flow or drain upon streets, roadways, ditches, gutters, public or private lands, and fail to clean up any such mess or debris.
- Permit or fail to prevent any animal to pick over, interfere with, remove or scatter any waste generated at their serviced property or fail to clean up any such mess created.
- Leave waste set out for collection services beyond 7am the day after the scheduled collection services have been completed.
- Scavenge any waste or cause or permit the scavenging of any waste set out for curbside collection services.
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