[Adopted 10-9-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-OR-024]
No owner, tenant or occupant of a property, or person, corporation
or other entity, shall plant, install or cause or permit the planting
or installation of invasive bamboo, specifically the species commonly
known as "running bamboo," upon any property located with the Township.
For the purposes of this section, "bamboo" means any bamboo in the
genus Phyllostachys, including Phyllostachys aureosulcata.
In the event that bamboo is located upon any property within
the Township, prior to the effective date of this prohibition, the
owner and/or occupant of said property shall jointly and severally
be required to confine such species to prevent the encroachment, spread,
invasion or intrusion of same onto any other property or public right-of-way.
In lieu of confining the species, the property owner or occupant may
elect to totally remove the bamboo from the property and all affected
properties. The failure to properly confine such spread of bamboo
shall require removal as set forth below. The cost of said removal
shall be at the property owner's expense.
Any bamboo existing on the effective date of this regulation
may not be replanted or replaced once such bamboo has died, been destroyed,
uprooted, or otherwise removed.
The prohibition shall not apply, where the root system of a
bamboo plant is entirely contained and confined within an aboveground
planter, barrel, or other vessel of such design, material and location
as to entirely prevent the spread of growth of the root system beyond
the container in which the bamboo is planted.