(A) Any person owning real property within the town is hereby required to cut and remove therefrom all weeds and grass before it reaches a height of 12 inches, and to keep the property free from trash and refuse matter at all times, provided, however, that the property owner shall not be required to cut real property and remove therefrom all weeds and grass more than four times in a calendar year.
(B) It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to serve written notice by certified mail at the last known address of every property owner who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of division (A) above requiring the property owner to cut and remove all noxious weeks, bushes and grasses, and to remove all trash or other refuse matter from the property within ten days from the date of the notice. If any property owner served with the notice shall fail or refuse to cut and remove all noxious weeds, bushes and grass, and remove all trash or other refuse matter within ten days after the notice shall have been given and served, the Mayor or a designee shall begin proceedings to have the noxious weeds, bushes and grass, and all trash or other refuse matter cut and removed from the property.
(C) The Town Clerk shall make a written report of the actual costs incurred by the town in the cutting and removal of the noxious weeds, bushes and grass, and the removal of all trash and other refuse matter from any lot pursuant to this chapter, and shall deliver the report to the Board of Aldermen.
(D) The owner of any lot upon which any noxious weeds, bushes and grass shall be cut and removed, or upon which any trash or other refuse matter shall be removed therefrom under the direction and supervision of the Board of Aldermen or a designee, and after the required notice, shall have been given to the property owner as provided in division (B) above, shall be liable to the town for the actual costs incurred by the town in the cutting and removal. The costs shall be charged against the property owner and shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as the ad valorem taxes of the owner are collected, and the costs shall be a lien on the real property subject only to the lien of the town and county ad valorem taxes thereon.
(1991 Code, Title X, § 2) Penalty, see § 10.99