§ 14-31. Duty of owners and occupants.

(a)

No person occupying any premises, and no person owning any unoccupied premises, shall permit or maintain on any such premises, or on the untraveled portion of streets lying between the road and sidewalk which abuts on any such premises, any growth of weeds, grass or other rank vegetation to a greater height than twelve (12) inches on the average, or any accumulation of dead weeds, grass or brush. No such occupant or owner shall cause, suffer or allow Canada thistle, dodders, mustards, wild carrot, perennial sowthistle, hoary alyssum, bindweed, ragweed, poison ivy, poison sumac, or other noxious weeds or plants detrimental to health, to growth on any such premises.

(b)

It shall be the duty of the occupant of every premises and the owner of unoccupied premises within the city to cut and remove or destroy by lawful means all such weeds, grass, or rank, poisonous or noxious vegetation once before the first day of June and as often thereafter as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of subsection (a).

(Ord. No. 63, eff. 7-24-58; Comp. Ords. 1977, § 20.321)