[CC 1991 §245.020; CC 1970 §21-17; Ord. No. 88 §1, 7-25-1949]
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant or any
agent, servant, representative or employee of any such owner, lessee
or occupant having control of any occupied lot or land or any part
thereof in the City to permit or maintain on any such lot or land
or on or along the sidewalk, street or alley adjacent to the same
between the property line and the curb or middle of the alley or for
ten (10) feet outside the property line if there be no curb any growth
of weeds, grass or other rank vegetation to a greater height or length
than twelve (12) inches on the average or any accumulation of dead
weeds, grass or brush. It shall also be unlawful for any such person
or persons to cause, suffer or allow poison ivy, ragweed or other
poisonous plants or plants detrimental to health to grow on any such
lot or land in such manner that any part of such ivy, ragweed or other
poisonous or harmful weed shall extend upon, overhang or border any
public place or allow seed, pollen or other poisonous particles or
emanations therefrom to be carried through the air into any public
place.
[Ord. No. 910 §§1 —
2, 2006]
A. As
of May 1, 2006, all property owners and/or occupants of residential
property within the City of Pine Law, Missouri, shall be responsible
for the maintenance of vegetation within three (3) feet of their fence,
even if same abuts a vacant property or public easement. It shall
not be the responsibility of a property owner to maintain the vegetation
of abutting occupied property.
B. Any
person who violates this Section shall be fined no more than fifty
dollars ($50.00) for each violation. Each day after a person is in
violation of this Section shall be deemed a separate violation.
[Ord. No. 2009-22 §§1
— 8, 4-14-2009]
A. This
Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Weed to Tree Ordinance"
of the City of Pine Lawn, Missouri. The general purpose of this Section
is to exercise the City's Police power for the benefit of the public
health, safety and welfare; to provide enforcement mechanisms and
the abatement and collection of abatement expenses by the City, and
to these ends this Section shall be liberally construed.
B. This
Section shall be enforced for the benefit of the health, safety and
welfare of the general public, not for the benefit of any particular
person or class of persons.
C. It
is the intent of this Section to place the obligation of complying
with its requirements upon the owner or occupier of the land and buildings
within the scope of this Section. No provision or term used in this
Section is intended to impose any duty upon the City or any of its
officers, officials and employees which would subject them to damages
in a civil action.
D. Definitions
used in this Section shall have the following meanings, unless an
additional meaning clearly appears from the context:
OCCUPANT
Any person occupying or having possession of property or
any portion thereof.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or with others, has title or interest
in property with or without accompanying actual possession thereof
and including any person who as agent or as executor, administrator,
trustee or guardian of an estate has charge, care or control of any
property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, unincorporated
or incorporated association, marital community, joint venture, governmental
entity or other entity or group of persons however organized.
PROPERTY
A specific parcel or parcels, platted or unplatted, of land
or real estate.
E. Property
owners or occupants that allow weeds to grow into trees on the property
they have an interest in shall be declared a nuisance within the City
of Pine Lawn.
F. It
is the duty of the owner of property and of any occupant of the property
wherein or whereon any nuisance exists to abate the nuisance by destroying,
removing or trimming vegetation and removing or destroying any health,
safety or fire hazard and to remove all shrubs, bushes, trees or vegetation
growing or which has grown and died which is a fire hazard or is infested
with caterpillars or other horticultural pests or which otherwise
constitute a menace to the public health, safety or welfare.
G. It
shall be unlawful to allow a nuisance to exist on property that you
either own or occupy in the City of Pine Lawn, particularly allowing
a weed to grow into a tree or above twelve (12) inches in height.
H. Any
violation of this Section may result in a penalty of one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00) and/or imprisonment of ninety (90) days.