[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Horseheads
8-3-1965 as Section 16-10 of the 1965 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Property maintenance — See Ch. 179.
The owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of any lot in the village
shall keep such lot free from noxious grass and noxious weeds and other brush,
briars, obstructions or rubbish amounting to a fire, health or safety hazard.
If such owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of any such lot
fails to remove any noxious grass or noxious weeds or brush, briars, obstructions
or rubbish as aforesaid within forty-eight (48) hours after notice by the
village so to do, the village may effect such removal, and the cost thereof
may be assessed upon the real property on which such brush, grass, rubbish
or weeds are found and shall constitute a lien and charge on the real property
until paid or otherwise satisfied or discharged and shall be collected by
the Village Clerk-Treasurer in a manner provided by law for the collection
of delinquent taxes.
Service of the notice to remove may be upon a person of suitable age
or discretion in any building upon any such lot or, in the case of a vacant
lot where the address of the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control
thereof is not known, by affixing the notice to some object thereon where
it is likely to be seen. If the owner of the land is a nonresident, a notice
to so cut, trim or remove such brush, grass, rubbish, weeds or other materials
mailed to such owner addressed to his last known address shall be sufficient
service thereof.
