For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADJACENT PUBLIC STREET. Includes city streets and alleys and state and county roads or highways. In a case of a frontage or local access street adjacent to a state highway, the area required to be maintained by the adjacent property owner includes the area between the frontage street and the traveled portion of the highway.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. Those plants so designated by the State Secretary of Agriculture.
PRAIRIE or MEADOW LANDS. Grasses and flowering broad leaf plants that are native indigenous, or adapted to northwest Iowa and are commonly found in meadow and prairie plant communities, excluding noxious or common weeds.
TURF GRASSES. Grasses commonly grown in regularly mowed lawn areas, such as bluegrass, rye grass and fescue mixes.
WOODED AREA. An area where the land, trees and vegetation remain in a state natural to continuation of a woodland area.
(Prior Code, § 4-2-7) (Ord. 658, passed 8-6-2007)