Sec. 14-10. Public Nuisance.
No owner, agent, lessee, or other person occupying or having charge or control of any building, lot or premises within the City shall permit weeds to remain upon the premises, public sidewalks, streets or alleys between the premises and the centerline of any public street or alley.
“Weeds,” as used in this Article, means all weeds growing upon streets, alleys, sidewalks or private property in the City and includes any of the following:
a.Weeds which bear or may bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature.
b.Weeds and indigenous grasses which may attain such large growth as to become, when dry, a fire menace to adjacent improved property.
c.Weeds which are otherwise noxious or dangerous.
d.Poison oak and poison ivy when the conditions of growth are such as to constitute a menace to public health.
e.Accumulation of garden refuse, cuttings and other combustible trash.
Every property owner shall remove or destroy such weeds from his property and in the abutting half of any street or alley between the lot lines as extended.
This Article 3, Chapter 14, of this Code, is enacted for the purpose of providing for the summary abatement of such public nuisances under the provisions of Section 38773.5 of the Government Code of the State of California.