For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GRASS. Any type of grass or weed, but not including crops grown as a source of income, including, but not limited to, corn, oats or barley.
LAND USED FOR AGRICULTURE. The use of land for tilling of the soil, the raising of field or tree crops or animal husbandry, as a source of income.
OCCUPANT. Any person who has the right to occupy a parcel of property due to being an owner or pursuant to a verbal or written lease or rental agreement with the owner or agent thereof.
OWNER. Any person holding an ownership interest in land in the township upon which there is tall grass growing. For the purposes of this subchapter, the name and address listed on the township tax assessment roll shall indicate ownership interest in such land.
WEEDS. Includes Canada thistle (Circium arvense), dodders (any species of Cuscuta), mustards (charlock, black mustard and Indian mustard, species of Brassica or Sinapis), wild carrot (Daucus carota), bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis), hoary alyssum (Berteroaincana), ragweed (ambrosia elatior J), Japanese knotweed (fallopian japonica), poison ivy (rhus toxicodendron), poison sumac (toxicodendron vernix), garlic mustard (alliaria petiolata), spotted knapweed (centaurea maculosa), phragmites (phragmites australis) and/or any other other plant, which is in the opinion of the Township Board, comes under the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, Public Act 359 of 1941, as amended, being M.C.L.A. §§ 247.61 et seq.), including grass over six inches in height, other than that which is part of a vegetable or flower garden. WEEDS shall be regarded as a common nuisance.
(Ord. 35, passed 4-2-2019)