I.C. 15-3-4. This law requires that a person owning or possessing real estate in Indiana shall be required to destroy by cutting, plowing, cultivation, smothering, or by the use of chemicals in the bud state of growth or earlier so as to prevent any detrimental plants from maturing. Named in the law as detrimental plants are Canada thistle, Johnsongrass, Sorghum Almum, Burcucumbur, Shattercane, and in Residential Areas only, Noxious Weeds and Rank Vegetation.
(B) I.C. 36-7-10.1 et seq., Removal of Weeds, allows County, City, and Town officials to adopt an ordinance to require property owners to cut weeds and other rank vegetation. After written notice, authorities may cut weeds and bill property owners for costs incurred.
('71 Code, § 102.01) (Am. Ord. 25-1986, passed 8-11-86; Am. Ord. 13-94, passed 5-9-94) Penalty, see § 10.99