(a) No person, whether the owner, lessee, agent, tenant or other person or entity having charge or care of land in the Village, shall permit grass or noxious weeds to grow thereon to a height in excess of twelve inches, or to mature seeds thereon, or fail to cut and destroy such weeds when notified by the Zoning Officer to do so.
(b) “Noxious weeds” includes thistle, burdock, jimson weed, ragweed, milkweed, mullein, poison ivy and other vegetation of rank growth and the failure to cut the same is declared a nuisance and a hazard to the health and safety of the residents of the Village.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and subject to the penalties provided in Section 501.99.
(Ord. 2004-31. Passed 7-6-04.)