For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMISSIONER. A competent person appointed by the Village Council as the village’s Commissioner of Noxious Weeds, with the Village Chief of Police so appointed by this subchapter and subsequent appointments allowed by Village Council Resolution.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. Are declared to be a public nuisance and shall be abated as provided in this chapter, means:
(1) Canada thistle (Circium arvense), dodders (any species of Cuscuta), mustards (charlock, black mustard, and Indian mustard, species of Brassica or Sinapis), wild carrot (Daucus carota), bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis), hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana), ragweed (ambrosia elatior 1), poison ivy (rhus toxicodendron) and poison sumac (toxicodendron verni); and
(2) Weeds, grasses and vegetation other than live flowers, trees, shrubs and fruit or vegetable plants, that exceed a height of eight inches above ground level.
(Ord. 7.01, passed 10-11-71; Am. Ord. 7.12, passed 5-12-08)