(a) The owner, occupant or person having the charge or management of any lot or parcel of land situated within the corporate limits of the Municipality, whether the same is improved or unimproved, vacant or occupied, shall cut or destroy, or cause to be cut or destroyed any weeds or grass growing upon any such lot or parcel of land, and prevent the same from blooming or going to seed, or exceeding a height of eight inches.
(b) For the purpose of this chapter “weed” is defined as a useless, unsightly, or harmful plant, growing profusely without cultivation or care. The following definition includes, but is not limited to the following plants:
Shatter cane (Sorghum bicolor)
Russian thistle (salsola Kali var. tenuifolia)
Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense L. [Pers])
Wild parsnip (Pastinance sativa)
Wild carrot (Queen Annes lace) (Daucus carota L.)
Oxeye daisey (Chrysanthermum leucanthemum var. pinnatifidum)
Wild mustard (Brassica Kaber var. pinnatifida)
Grapevines: when growing in groups of one hundred or more and not pruned, sprayed, cultivated, or otherwise maintained for two, consecutive years.
Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense L. [Scop.])
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Cressleaf groundsel (Senecio glabellus)
Musk thistle (carduus nutans)
Purple loosestrife (lythrum salicaria)
Mile-A-Minute Weed (Polygonum perfoliatum)
Bindweed (wild morning glory)
Blackberries
Black medic
Blue toadlax
Brass buttons
Broadleaf Plantain
Bull thistle
Burdock
Burelevak
Buttercup
Chickweed
Clover
Cocklebur
Common Plantain
Crabgrasses
Creeping Beggarweed
Creeping Charlie
Curly dock
Dandelion
Dog fennel
Evening primrose
False dandelion
Fennel
Filaree
Florida Pasley
Galinsoga
Garden Spurge
Ground ivy
Hawkweed
Heal-all
Henbit
Johnsongrass
Knotweed
Lambequarters
Little bittercress
London rocket
Maiden cane
Mallow
Mayweed
Mousseax chickweed
Mustard
Oldenlandia
Orchardgreen
Oxalis
Pennywent
Peppergrass
Parennial ryegrass
Poison ivy
Poison oak
Primrose
Prostate spurge
Puncture vine
Quackgrass
Ragweed
Sandspur
Sheep soxrel
Shepherdspurse
Smooth cat’s ear
Sowthistle
Speedwell
Spotted spurge
Spurge
Tansy mustard
Tansy ragwort
Thistle
Torpedograss
Velvet leaf
White clover
Whitetop
Wild carrot
Wild garlic
Wild lettuce
Wild onion
Wild barley
Yellow nutgrass
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor in addition to any assessment of costs as provided in Section 557.03. On a second offense, within one year after the first offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense, within one year after the first offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 38-03. Passed 7-28-03.)
(Ord. 38-03. Passed 7-28-03.)