(A) Unlawful to allow weeds on premises, streets or alleys. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any lot, lots or parcels of ground within the corporate limits of this village to permit the weeds or grass growing thereon or in the streets or alleys or on the sidewalks abutting or contiguous to such lots or parcels of land to hinder or obstruct travel along the sidewalks or permit a growth of weeds or grass that are unsightly or become dangerous in causing fires or from which weed seed of rank and noxious weeds may be propagated and scattered to lots or parcels of ground adjacent thereto.
(B) Notice to remove. Whenever the weeds or grass growing on such lot, lots or parcels of land, or in streets or alleys, or along the sidewalk abutting or contiguous thereto, shall become a hindrance to travel, or shall, in the opinion of such village employee as is designated by the Board of Trustees, be unsightly or become dangerous in causing or spreading fire or may propagate and scatter seeds of rank and noxious weeds to adjacent lots or parcels of ground, it shall be the duty of the Village Clerk to notify by personal service or by publication the owner of such lots or parcels of land to cut down or remove such weeds and grass and if said weeds and grass are not cut down and removed within ten days, such village employee as is designated by the Board of Trustees shall cause the same to be done at the expense of village. The money thus expended shall be recovered by the village from the owner or occupant aforesaid before any court of competent jurisdiction or shall be assessed as a special tax or assessment.
(C) List of unpaid assessments. In November of each year, the Village Clerk shall publish a list of unpaid assessments for mowing of weeds, giving owners of said lots and parcels notice that if said assessments are not paid by the following December l, the same will be certified to the County Clerk for entry on the tax rolls.
(D) Entry on tax rolls. On December 1 of each year, the Village Clerk, having given notice as aforesaid, will certify all unpaid assessments for mowing of weeds to the County Clerk directing the same to be entered on the tax rolls as a special assessment.
(1979 Code, Ch. 20)