Codes Enforcement

Check out this brief video on the most common code violations for the City of Lebanon, TN. A full list of LMC’s can be found on this page, below:

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Ordinance Awareness Violations

Title 9, Chapter 2 - Peddlers, Solicitors, ETC.

• LMC: 9-201 - Definitions
• LMC: 9-202 - Exemptions
• LMC: 9-203 - Permit Required
• LMC: 9-204 - Permit Procedure
• LMC: 9-205 - Restrictions on Peddlers, Street barkers and Solicitors
• LMC: 9-206 - Restrictions on Transient Vendors
• LMC: 9-207 - Display of Permit
• LMC: 9-208 - Suspension or Revocation of permit
• LMC: 9-209 - Expiration and Renewal of permit
• LMC: 9-210 - Food Trucks
• LMC: 9-211 - Ag Vendors
• LMC: 9-212 - Violation and Penalty

Title 11, Chapter 4 - Relative to Noise

• LMC: 11-401 - Noise Ordinance.

Title 11, Chapter 8 - Offenses Against the Public Health, Safety and Welfare

• LMC: 11-801 - Abandoned Refrigerators, etc.
• LMC: 11-803 - Posting Notices, etc.

Title 13, Chapter 1 - Miscellaneous

• LMC: 13-102 - Smoke, Soot, Cinders, etc.
• LMC: 13-103 - Stagnant Water
• LMC: 13-104 - Weeds / Grass
• LMC: 13-105 - Dead Animals
• LMC: 13-106 - Health and Sanitation Nuisances
• LMC: 13-107 - Junkyards
• LMC: 13-108 - Prohibited Furniture, Equipment and Appliances
• LMC: 13-109 - Dilapidated Fencing

Title 13, Chapter 2 - Rats

• LMC: 13-202 - Business buildings to be Rat-proofed, etc.
• LMC: 13-206 - Occupants responsible for maintaining Rat-proofing
• LMC: 13-213 - Storage of Garbage, Refuse, Boxes, etc.

Title 13, Chapter 3 - Public Nuisances

• LMC: 13-301 - Conditions described as constituting a Public Nuisance
• LMC: 13-307 - Definitions: Junk Vehicles a Public Nuisance

Title 13, Chapter 4 - Lebanon Anti-Litter Ordinance

• LMC: 13-411 -Throwing or distributing commercial handbills in Public Places
• LMC: 13-412 - Placing commercial and non-commercial handbills on vehicles
• LMC: 13-414 - Distributing commercial and non-commercial handbills at inhabited private premises
• LMC: 13-417 - Litter on Occupied Private Property
• LMC: 13-418 - Owner to maintain premises free from litter
• LMC: 13-419 - Litter on Vacant Lots
• LMC: 13-420 - Clearing of litter from open private property by city

Title 13, Chapter 5 - Outdoor Pools to Be Completely Enclosed by a Fence

• LMC: 13-501 - Fencing Requirements
• LMC: 13-502 - Compliance
• LMC: 13-503 - Definition
• LMC: 13-504 - Location of Fencing
• LMC: 13-505 - Distance between Pool and Fencing
• LMC: 13-506 - Wall may be incorporated into fence
• LMC: 13-507 - Fine
• LMC: 13-508 - Enforcement
• LMC: 13-509 - Severability

Title 13 Chapter

• LMC: 13-601 - International Property Maintenance Code Adopted
• LMC: 13-602 - Code to be available for information
• LMC: 13-603 - Enforcement Responsibilities
• LMC: 13-604 - Application
• LMC: 13-605 - Failure to Comply
• LMC: 13-606 - Fine not actual remedy for violations
• LMC: 13-607 - Penalty

Title 15, Chapter 6 & 8 - Parking

• LMC: 15-601 - General Parking
• LMC: 15-602 - Angle Parking
• LMC: 15-603 - Occupancy of More Than One space
• LMC: 15-604 - Where Prohibited
• LMC: 15-605 - Loading and Unloading Zones
• LMC: 15-606 - Designation of Public Carrier Stops and Stands
• LMC: 15-607 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking of Buses and Taxicabs Regulated
• LMC: 15-608 - Restricted Use of Bus and Takicab Stands
• LMC: 15-610 - Presumption with Respect to Illegal Parking
• LMC: 15-803 - Illegal Parking
• Ordinance No. 17-5516 - Relative to Parking Regulations

Title 16, Chapter1 - Miscellaneous

• LMC: 16-102 - Trees obstructing over streets
• LMC: 16-103 - Trees, etc., obstructing view at intersections prohibited
• LMC: 16-116 - Properties to be numbered

Title 17, Chapter 1 - Refuse and Trash Disposal

• LMC: 17-102 - Roll out containers
• LMC: 17-103 - Placement of containers for collection
• LMC: 17-104 - Restrictions on placement of containers
• LMC: 17-105 - Hours for placement of containers for collection
• LMC: 17-106 - Storage of containers
• LMC: 17-107 - Placement of containers in multi-family dwellings
• LMC: 17-108 - Placement of refuse in containers

Title 17, Chapter 2 - Medical and Hazardous Wastes

• LMC: 17-201 - Medical Waste
• LMC: 17-202 - Hazardous Waste

Title 20, Chapter 1 - Signs

• LMC: 20-122 - Computation of sign area and power line setbacks
• LMC: 20-123 - Exemptions
• LMC: 20-124 - Prohibited signs and other regulations
• LMC: 20-125 - Temporary Signs