Title 8 PUBLIC WORKS
Chapter 8.02 WEED AND BRUSH ABATEMENT
8.02.030 Definitions.
As used in this Chapter:
A. “Brush” means and includes a
wood, perennial plant usually with multiple stems and trunks which are known to
have high oil, high resin, or low moisture contention in their leaves and
branches and any other combustible vegetation.
B. “Dirt” means
and includes any artificial accumulation of earth of a size, shape or
composition to constitute a hazard to the public health or
safety.
C. “Rubbish” means and includes all waste paper, wood,
cardboard or other flammable material of any kind which endangers the public
safety by creating a fire hazard.
D. “Weeds” means weeds growing
upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, or private property in the City of Monte Sereno
including, but not limited to, the following:
1. Weeds which bear or may
bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature;
2. Weeds, grasses and brush which may
soon attain such large growth as to become, when dry, a fire
menace;
3. Weeds which are otherwise noxious or dangerous;
4. Poison oak
or poison ivy, when the conditions of growth are such as to constitute a menace
to the public health; and
5. Dry grass, stubble, brush, garden refuse,
cuttings, limbs and other combustible trash. (Ord. 154 § 1 (part),
2007)