The city may provide for, appropriate money for and make the necessary expenditures for noxious weed control and eradication. It is hereby the duty of the City Street Commissioner, or his or her duly authorized agent, to periodically view and inspect all lands within the city and if weeds or other worthless vegetation are found to be growing upon any lot, or lots or lands within the city, or upon the streets and alleys abutting upon any lot, lots or lands within the city, then he or she shall notify the owner of the lot, lots or lands, by publication or by personal service, to remove and destroy the weeds and worthless vegetation located upon the lot, lots, lands, streets or alleys. If the owner fails, neglects or refuses, after five-days’ notice, by publication or by personal service, to destroy or remove the same, then the city, through its proper officers, shall destroy and remove the same, or cause the same to be destroyed and removed, from the lot, lots or lands, and streets and alleys abutting thereon, and shall assess the cost thereof against the lot, lots or lands as a special tax thereon, which shall be collected as are other taxes of the city or may be recovered by civil suit brought by the city against the owner of the parcel of land. The City Street Commissioner, or his or her duly authorized agent, shall also periodically view and inspect the right-of-way of all railroads within the corporate limits of the city and if weeds or other worthless vegetation are found to be growing within the right-of-way, then he or she shall notify, in writing, the owner or owners of the right-of-way to destroy and remove the same therefrom. If the owner or owners of the right-of-way fails, neglects or refuses, after ten days’ written notice, to remove the same, then the city, by its proper officers, shall destroy and remove the same, or cause the same to be destroyed and removed, and shall assess the cost thereof against the property.
(Prior Code, § 8-105) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Weeds, litter, stagnant water, see § 99.59
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 2-946.02, 2-963, 18-1719