No owner, lessee, occupant, or agent, servant, representative or employee of any lessee or occupant, having control of any lot or ground situated in the town, shall allow or maintain on any such lot any growth of weeds and undergrowth to a height of over eight inches. If any person shall fail, refuse or neglect to cut, destroy or remove such weeds within two days after the receipt of notice to do so given by the public works code enforcement officer, then the town, through its agents and employees, may enter upon such lot or premises for a depth of 50 feet from each abutting property line and cut and destroy such weeds and undergrowth for a depth of 50 feet from each abutting property line, and the cost and expense thereof shall be paid by the owner, lessee, occupant or agent, or it shall become a lien against such property in the same manner as for taxes. If the owner of the lot or ground, or his address, is unknown, the notice herein provided shall not be required. The property owner shall destroy all ragweed and other pollen-producing weeds growing on any lot or along or in the streets of the town before August 15 of each year.
(Code 1982, § 10-22; Ord. No. 92-36, § 1, 6-11-1992)