ABATE: | Lessen, reduce, or remove. |
ACCUMULATION: | Branches, fruit, leaves, limbs, prunings, stumps, trimmings, and parts of trees, which have been cut, removed, severed, or have fallen and remain on the lot or premises. |
CULTIVATED: | To grow and care for; plants that are grown for their produce. |
FIRE HAZARD: | Vegetation, which is dry and combustible including, but not limited to, weeds, grass or clippings, dead bushes or trees or their parts, and other combustible vegetative materials. |
GRASS: | Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop. |
HEALTH HAZARD: | Vegetation or accumulations providing harborage for rats, rodents (excluding squirrels), vermin or other disease carrying pests. Vegetation or accumulations likely to attract or harbor mosquitoes. Vegetation, which is poisonous or noxious including, but not limited to, poison ivy, poison oak, poison hemlock, poison sumac, and nightshade, or that which creates a danger of contamination or disease. |
NOXIOUS WEEDS: | As defined by 505 Illinois Compiled Statutes 100/1, Illinois Noxious Weed Law, most recently amended. |
NUISANCE: | Any act or offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the State of Illinois or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the Village of Glen Carbon. In addition, the officials of the Village shall be authorized to abate any nuisance which, while not specifically defined within this Chapter, shall constitute the unreasonable, unwarrantable, or unlawful use by a person of property, real or personal, or from his own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct which works to obstruct or injure the rights of another, or of the public, and produces such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, or hurt that the law will presume an actionable nuisance. Nuisances may be abated which are public or which are both public and private in nature. |
OVERGROWTH: | Excessive growth. |
PLANT: | A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll. The definition shall include herbs, flowers, vegetables, shrubs, weeds, greenery, flora, vegetation, undergrowth, herbage, and verdure. |
PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE HAZARD: | Dead or dying trees, tree limbs or branches, plants, shrubs, or other such vegetation which, by reason of their location, size or state of deterioration, constitute a danger to the public health, or welfare, and/or trees and vegetation which are infected by disease or blight, dangerous to animals, persons, other trees, or plant life. |
SAFETY HAZARD: | Vegetation which overhangs the streets, sidewalk, or alley in such a way as to impede the free and full use of the street, sidewalk or alley, and/or vegetation which obstructs the vision of drivers such that traffic regulation signs or view of an intersection is obstructed from a position of thirty feet (30') or closer to the intersection, and/or vegetation which creates injury to or the opportunity or risk for injury to passersby or the general public. |
STUMP: | The part of a plant, and especially a tree, remaining attached to the root after the trunk is cut. |
TREE: | A woody perennial plant having a single, usually elongate, main stem generally with few or no branches on its lower part, a shrub or herb of arborescent form. |
VEGETATION: | Trees, shrubs, grass, weeds, bushes, vines, and other plant materials including, but not limited to, clippings, fallen leaves, fruit or branches. |
WEED TREE: | Any tree that grows invasively, prolifically or is of little commercial value. |
WEEDS: | All grasses, annual plants, and vegetation, other than trees or shrubs, provided, however, this term shall not include cultivated flowers and gardens. |
UNCULTIVATED: | Growing or developing without care. (Ord. 2022-4, 3-8-2022) |