§ 93.15 DEFINITIONS; PROHIBITIONS; ABATEMENT.

   (A)   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

      OBNOXIOUS VEGETATION. Does not include an agricultural crop, unless that crop is a health hazard or a fire or traffic hazard within the meaning of this section. OBNOXIOUS VEGETATION includes:

      (1)   Poison oak;

      (2)   Poison ivy;

      (3)   Blackberry bushes that extend into a public thoroughfare or across a property line;

      (4)   Vegetation that is:

         (a)   A health hazard;

         (b)   A fire hazard because it is near other combustibles; or

         (c)   A traffic hazard because it impairs the view of a public thoroughfare or otherwise makes use of the thoroughfare hazardous.

      (5)   Weeds more than ten inches high; and

      (6)   Grass more than ten inches high and not within the exception stated in this section.

   (B)   Except as § 93.16 provides to the contrary, no owner or person in charge of property may allow obnoxious vegetation to be on the property or in the right-of-way of a public thoroughfare abutting on the property. Obnoxious vegetation so located is a public nuisance.

   (C)   In accordance with §§ 93.30 through 93.36:

      (1)   The city may abate the nuisance; and

      (2)   The costs that the city incurs in the abatement may be charged against the owner or person in charge or against the property itself.

(Prior Code, § 93.15) (Ord. 290, passed 8-10-1981) Penalty, see § 93.99