As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall have
the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Includes any person, persons, corporation, partnership or
firm or other owner or tenant of the subject property.
If an owner or tenant who has received notice in accordance with the provisions of §
81-2 fails to remove from said lands the brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growth, filth, garbage, trash and debris or fails to cut any brush, hedges, shrubs or other obstructions for which said person was cited within 10 days of notice to remove the same, then and in that event the Township shall have the right to provide for the removal of the same by or under the direction of an officer of the municipality.
In all cases where any brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps,
roots, obnoxious growth, filth, garbage, trash and debris are removed
or any brush, hedges, shrubs or other plant life are cut by the Township
under the provisions of this chapter, the municipal officer of the
municipality in charge of the removal of said material shall certify
the cost thereof to the governing body. Upon receipt of the certificate
of cost, the governing body shall examine the same and, if found correct,
shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against the property
from which said material was removed. The amount so charged shall
become a lien upon such lands and shall be added to and become and
form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon said lands,
the same to bear interest at the same rate as other taxes, and shall
be collected and enforced by the Tax Collector of the Township in
accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.27.