[Ord. No. 2018-12]
Whenever the Mayor and Council shall find that the excessive
growth of brush, hedges or other plant life upon any lot in the municipality
constitutes a dangerous condition or a menace to public safety, the
municipal engineer shall forthwith notify the owner of any such lot,
in writing, and shall order him to cut and trim all brush, hedges
and other plant life growing upon his or her land, within 10 feet
of any roadway or within 25 feet of the intersection of any roadway,
to a height of not more than 2 1/2 feet. Any such order shall
require compliance therewith within 10 days from receipt of such notice.
[Ord. No. 2018-12]
The municipal engineer is hereby authorized and directed to
investigate and, from time to time, to report to the Mayor and Council
with respect to excessive growth of brush, hedges and other plant
life within close proximity to the public highways of the municipality,
which may constitute a dangerous condition or a menace to public safety.
[Ord. No. 2018-12]
Whenever any person shall fail to comply with the written notice
and order received from the municipal engineer within the period specified,
the municipal engineer is authorized and empowered to enter the land
abutting on the public highways and to cause such brush, hedges and
plant life to be cut and trimmed in accordance with the requirements
of such notice and order. Upon the completion of such cutting and
trimming, the municipal engineer shall certify the cost thereof to
the Mayor and Council, who shall examine the certificate, and if the
same is found to be correct, the Mayor and Council shall cause such
cost to be charged against the abutting land. If the cost certified
by the municipal engineer should be found excessive, the Mayor and
Council so charged shall cause the reasonable cost to be charged against
such land. The amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon
such land and shall be added to and form part of the taxes next to
be assessed and levied upon such land, the same to bear interest at
the same rate as other taxes, and shall be collected and enforced
by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
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This article shall not be construed so as to require the cutting,
trimming or felling of any shade tree regulated and controlled by
Chapter 22 of the "Code of the Township of Princeton, New Jersey,
1968".
