For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
NUISANCE. The doing of an act, or the omitting to perform a duty, or the suffering or permitting any condition to be or to exist, which act, omission, condition, or thing which either:
(1) Is injurious to health;
(2) Indecent;
(3) Offensive to the senses; or
(4) Obstruction to the free use of the property, so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property.
RANK VEGETATION. Includes any grasses or plants (other than trees or normally recognized ornamental bushes, flowers, or other ornamental plants) growing to a height of eight inches or higher above the ground, but does not include agricultural crops, such as hay and pasture.
WEEDS. Includes poison ivy, giant ragweed, common ragweed, sandbur, burdock, musk thistle, Canadian thistle, bull thistle, multiflora rose, jimsonweed, buckhorn, pokeweed, wild onion, milkweed, hemp dogbane, garlic mustard, quack grass, horse weed, foxtail, prickly lettuce, cocklebur, waterhemp, pigweed, velvetleaf, curly dock, or other weeds of like kind, but does not include agricultural crops, such as hay and pasture.
(Ord. 11, passed - -2012)