For the purposes of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"WEEDS AND RANK VEGETATION." Construed in its ordinary, customary and accepted sense, and includes but is not limited to the following: brushy, natural or cultivated plants or grasses or other vegetation grown in rank or unsightly fashion, or which is noxious or detrimental to public health and safety, or a public nuisance. It shall include without limitation the following plants: Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard); Amaranthus retoflexus (rough green pigweed); Ambrosia elatior (common ragweed); Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed); Arctium minus (burdock); Bidens grondosa (beggarticks); Chenopodium album (lambs quarter); Cirsium arvense (common thistle); Concoluvuls, all species (bindweed); Remax, all species (docks); Rhus radicans (poison ivy); Solanum carolinese (horse nettle); Sonchus arvensis (saw thistle); Xamthium pennsuvancian (coclebur); all other plants which are poisonous or detrimental to human health or which may be determined noxious by the Indiana legislature or by rule of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources or Indiana Department of Agriculture; and grass in excess of ten inches in height, excluding ornamental grasses. The foregoing enumeration is not intended to be a11-inclusive, but to be indicative of those types of plants that are considered a nuisance or detriment to the public health and safety. As used in this subchapter, "WEEDS" does not include flower or vegetable gardens, cultivated or tended shrubbery or agricultural crops.
(Ord. 2011-9, passed 6-13-11)