For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATIVE BODY. A three-member panel consisting of the Town Clerk/Treasurer, Water Superintendent, and Chief of Police, which shall have the authority to preside over a grass, weed, and trash abatement.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER. The Town Clerk/Treasurer or the nuisance abatement official appointed by the Town Board of Trustees.
BOARDED AND SECURED. The closing, boarding, or locking of any or all exterior openings, so as to prevent entry into a structure.
DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS. A structure which, through neglect or injury, lacks the necessary repairs or otherwise is in a state of decay or partial ruin, to such an extent that said structure is a hazard to the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.
NUISANCE. Consists of unlawfully doing an act, omitting to perform a duty, or any thing or condition which:
(1) Annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, health, or safety of others;
(2) Offends public decency;
(3) Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for use, any lake, drainage way, stream, stream basin, public park, street, or other public property; or
(4) In any way renders person insecure in life or in the use of property.
(Prior Code, Ch. 13, Art. 1, § 4)
OWNER. The owner(s) of record, as shown by the most current tax rolls of the County Treasurer.
TRASH. Any refuse, litter, ashes, leaves, debris, paper, combustible materials, rubbish, offal, waste, or other matter of any kind or form which is uncared for, discarded, or abandoned.
WEEDS.
(1) Shall include, but not be limited to, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and all vegetation at any stage of maturity which:
(a) Exceeds six inches in height, except healthy trees, shrubs, or produce for human consumption grown in a tended and cultivated garden, unless such trees and shrubbery, by their density or location, constitute a detriment to the health, benefit, safety, and/or welfare of the public or community, create a traffic or fire hazard, or otherwise interfere with the mowing of said weeds;
(b) Conceals or invites deposition or accumulation of refuse or trash, regardless of the height of the vegetation;
(c) Harbors rodents or vermin;
(d) Gives off unpleasant or noxious odors;
(e) Constitutes a traffic or fire hazard; or
(f) Is dead or diseased.
(2) WEEDS shall not include tended crops or land zoned for agricultural use, which crops are planted more than 150 feet from a parcel zoned for other than agricultural use.
(Prior Code, Ch. 13, Art. 1, § 1)
(Ord. 21-6-1, passed 6-21-2021)