It shall be unlawful and hereby declared a public nuisance for any owner, agent, occupant, or person in possession, charge or control of any lot or piece of ground in the City of Grand Island, Nebraska, to allow or maintain any growth of twelve inches or more in height of weeds, grasses, or worthless vegetation and upon conviction such owner, agent, occupant, or person shall be penalized in accordance with the provisions of the Grand Island City Code. A separate and distinct offense shall be regarded as having been committed on each calendar day that such weeds, grasses, or worthless vegetation is permitted to remain on said premises.
As used and applied in this section, weeds shall include, but not be limited to, bindweed (convolvulus arvensis), puncture vince (tribulus terrestris), leafy spurge (euphorbia esula), Canada thistle (cirsium arvense), perennial peppergrass (lepidium draba), Russian knapweed (cenaurea picris), Johnson grass (sorghum halepense), nodding or musk thistle (Carduus nutans), Scotch thistle (onopordum acanthium), morning glory (Impmoea spp.), bur ragwood (Franseria discolor/Franseria tomentosa), glodepodded hoary cress (Hymenophysa pubescens), quack grass (agropyron repens), perennial sow thistle (sonchus arvensis), horse nettle (solanum carolinense), bull thistle (cirsium lanceolatum), buckthorn (rahmnus sp.) (tourn), hemp plant (cannabis sativa), ragweed (ambrosiaceae), or any other economically useless plant or plant of unsightly appearance.