§ 93.30 WEEDS TO BE REMOVED.

   (A)   Every person owning property in the city who suffers or permits weeds or other rank vegetation to grow thereon, and who fails or refuses to cut and remove them, shall be guilty of maintaining a public nuisance.

   (B)   The owner or person in control of property within the jurisdictional area of the city shall cut and remove and keep cut and removed all weeds and rank vegetation that are at least ten inches in height.

   (C)   WEEDS shall mean any plant at least ten inches in height. Trees, shrubberies, flowers, ornamental grasses, and agricultural crops, including hay and pasture, are not considered to be weeds or rank vegetation.

   (D)   RANK VEGETATION shall include the following weeds:

      (1)   Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense).

      (2)   Johnson grass and Sorghum album (Sorghum halepense).

      (3)   Bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus).

      (4)   Shattercane (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench spp. drummondii (Seud.) de Wet.

      (5)   Poison ivy.

      (6)   Poison sumac.

      (7)   Poison oak.

      (8)   Quackgrass (Elytrigia repens).

      (9)   Carolina horsenettle (Soianum carolinense).

      (10)   Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium).

      (11)   Wild Mustard (Brassica kaber var, pinnatifida).

   (E)   The city may enforce this section in accordance with I.C. 36-7-10.1 by following the procedures in §§ 93.31 and 93.32, or alternatively by any other legal or equitable means.

(`81 Code, § 93.30) (Am. Ord. 98-2319, passed 12-21-98; Am. Ord. 11-2668, passed 2-7-11; Am. Ord. 12-2698, passed 7-2-12) Penalty, see § 10.99