[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A. Authority. This chapter is adopted pursuant to authority conferred
by §§ 66.0407 and 66.0517, Wis. Stats.
B. Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health,
safety and welfare of the Village of Greenville by requiring the destruction
of noxious and nuisance weeds and establishing minimum landscape maintenance
standards for lots within recorded subdivision plats.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
DESTROY
The complete killing of weeds or the killing of weed plants
above the surface of the ground by the use of chemicals, cutting,
tillage, cropping system, pasturing livestock, or any or all of these
in effective combination, at a time and in a manner as will effectively
prevent weed plants from maturing to the bloom or flower stage.
MANAGED NATURAL LANDSCAPE
Native and naturalized plants, including but not limited to ferns, wildflowers, grasses, shrubs and trees, grown in a managed landscape; provided, however, that noxious weed and nuisance weeds are prohibited and subject to destruction under §
307-3A.
NOXIOUS WEEDS
Canada thistle, leafy spurge and field bindweed (creeping
jenny).
NUISANCE WEEDS
Any nonnative member of the genus Lythrium (purple loosestrife)
or hybrids thereof, multiflora rose, common ragweed (Ambrosia atemisiifolia),
giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) and burdock (Arctium spp.).