(A) Every person owning any real property within the village is hereby required to cut and remove therefrom at least twice annually all noxious weeds, bushes and grass, and to keep such property free from trash or other refuse matter at all times.
(Prior Code, § 4-9)
(B) (1) It shall be the duty of the Mayor, whenever ordered to do so by the Village Council, to serve notice on every property owner who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of division (A) above requiring such property owner to cut and remove from such property all noxious weeds, bushes and grass and to remove all trash or other refuse matter therefrom within ten days from the date of such notice.
(2) If any property owner served with such 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 such notice shall have been given and served, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to notify the Village Council of such refusal or failure of the property owner to comply with such notice.
(3) The Mayor shall proceed to have cut and be removed from the property in question all noxious weeds, bushes and grass, and all trash or other refuse matter thereon.
(Prior Code, § 4-10)
(C) The Mayor shall make a written report of the actual costs incurred by the village 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 subchapter, and shall deliver such report to the village’s Tax Collector.
(Prior Code, § 4-11)
(D) (1) 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 Mayor, and after the required notice shall have been given to the property owner as provided in division (A) above, shall be liable to the village for the actual costs incurred by the village in such cutting and removal.
(2) Such 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 such owner are collected, and such costs shall be a lien on the real property subject only to the lien of the village and county ad valorem taxes thereon.
(Prior Code, § 4-12)