[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Buchanan 11-4-1997 as Ch. 34, Art. I, of the 1997 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No person owning property within the Town shall
permit to grow or pollinate upon his premises any weeds or grasses,
burdock, Canada thistle, bindweed or creeping jenny, leafy spurge,
bull thistle, sow thistle, wild mustard, yellow rocket, yellow dock,
Russian thistle, giant foxtail, English charlock, musk thistle, velvet
leaf, quack or quitchgrass, wild radish, buckhorn plantain, goatsbeard,
harmful barberry, and marijuana, all of which cause or produce hay
fever in human beings, exhale unpleasant or noxious weed odors or
conceal filthy deposits. In order to prevent such growth and pollination,
it shall be the duty of every property owner to mow or cause to be
mowed upon his premises all grasses or weeds exceeding one foot in
height and in such manner as shall effectively prevent them from bearing
seed or spreading to adjoining property.
It shall be the duty of the Weed Commissioner
to enforce §§ 66.0407 and 66.0517, Wis. Stats., and
this chapter.
A.
The Town Chairperson shall appoint one Commissioner
of Noxious Weeds on or before May 15 in each year; such Weed Commissioner
shall take the official oath which shall be filed in the office of
the Town and shall hold office for one year or until a successor is
qualified. The Weed Commissioner shall receive such compensation as
shall be determined by the Town Board.
[Amended 8-17-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
B.
The Weed Commissioner shall destroy or cause to be
destroyed noxious weeds, and the Weed Commissioner and his/her appointees
are further empowered to enter upon public and private lands and to
cut or remove the accumulation or growth of weeds, grass, brush, or
other rank or offensive vegetation which has grown to a height greater
than 12 inches.
[Amended 8-17-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
