(A) Failure to keep weeds, high grass, and other vegetation cut and removed. All persons owning or occupying any lot or tract of land in the city shall keep the weeds, high grass, and other vegetation growing on such property cut and removed. Whenever such weeds, high grass, or other vegetation shall attain the height of 12 inches, it shall be deemed a public nuisance.
(B) Unlawful to maintain such nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any person to create or maintain a nuisance as defined in division (A) above.
(C) Liability. Whenever weeds, high grass, or other vegetation, in violation of division (A) above, are allowed to grow on any part of any lot or ground within the city, the owner of the ground, or in case of joint tenancy, tenancy by entireties or tenancy in common, each owner thereof, shall be liable.
(D) Notice. The Chief of Police shall give a hearing after ten days’ notice thereof, either personally or by United States mail to the owner or owners, or his, her, or their agents, or by posting such notice on the premises; thereupon, the Chief of Police may declare the weeds, high grass, or other vegetation to be a nuisance and order the same to be abated within five days.
(E) Disposition. In case the weeds, high grass, or other vegetation are not cut down and removed within the five days, the Chief of Police shall have the weeds, high grass, or other vegetation cut down and removed, and shall certify the costs of same to the City Clerk.
(F) Tax bill. The City Clerk shall cause a special tax bill therefor against the property to be prepared and to be collected by the Collector, with other taxes assessed against the property; and the tax bill from the date of its issuance shall be a first lien on the property until paid and shall be prima facie evidence of the recitals therein and of its validity, and no mere clerical error or informality in the same, or in the proceedings leading up to the issuance, shall be a defense thereto. Each special tax bill shall be issued by the City Clerk and delivered to the Collector on or before June 1 of each year. Such tax bills if not paid when due shall bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum.
(Prior Code, § 215.040) Penalty, see § 91.99