Public Notice: Madison City-Wide Cleanup

PUBLIC NOTICE

 

All Madison citizens need to know that keeping your community clean is not just for eye appeal, but because it’s the law.  The Madison City Code and other law prohibits any owner or occupant of a lot in the City to pile up and store garbage, junk, trash, unstacked lumber or wood, scrap iron, wire metal, bricks, broken stone or cement, glass, cans, boxes, crates, old tires, old motor vehicles or parts thereof, and other items of waste materials. Before you receive a notice to remove such materials from your lot, you should take advantage of the Madison Cleanup Days project (May 4 thru 7) where you may at no cost discard much of your abandoned materials at the drop off location behind the firehall off 1st and S. Kent.

Abandoned, inoperable, or unlicensed motor vehicles are a violation as well, but cannot be taken on the City Cleanup days.

 

If in the coming days you do receive a nuisance notice, you will be given a short window of time to cleanup your lot at your own expense.  If you do not comply with the notice requirements, the City has the right to undertake the cleanup work itself and bill the cost to you.  If this cost is not paid to the City within two months, the City will file a lien against your real estate.  Also, you may be fined by the County Court up to $500 per day for each day you allow a nuisance violation to exist.

 

Do the right thing––help keep Madison beautiful.