(A) Cutting grass and weeds; civil offense. Every owner or tenant of property shall periodically cut the grass and other vegetation commonly recognized as weeds on his or her property, and it shall be a civil offense for any person to fail to comply with an order by the Codes Enforcement Officer to cut such vegetation when it has reached a height of over one foot.
(B) Prohibited vegetation.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any property owner, occupant, or person in control of any lot or parcel of land within the city to fail to eradicate on any such lot or parcel of land any noxious weeds, ragweed, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, thistle,, kudzu or any random invasive privet hedge. A weed may be added to or deleted from the list of noxious weeds by resolution of the City Commission.
(2) Such noxious weeds may be destroyed by cutting or removal, by spraying with a chemical compound/herbicide, by plowing under, or by such other method as recommended by the University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension Office.
(1994 Code, § 13-104) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993; Ord. 796, passed 11-28-2016) Penalty, see §
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