Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — LAW IS NOT OBSERVED [ARTICLE]

LAW IS NOT OBSERVED

Regarding the Cutting of Weeds Along the Public Highways. Many of the countr yroads throughout Jasper and surrounding counties are in bad condition as regards the weed nuisance. In some places the weeds are so high that they practically hide the fences, ami no one seems to pay anv attention to them. Ihe road officials seein to neglect to comply with the laws which require.the cutting of-weeds. Weed cutting along ,public highways is regulated by statute. The subject is covered by Sections 7807. 7808 ami 7809 of Burns’s Revised Statutes. 1908. which are as follows': "7807. That all- land owners through or along whose lands public highways are laid out and extended shall, between the Ist day of July and the 20th day of August in each year, cause all briars, thistle?, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing along said highway and contiguous to their lands, to be cut down and destroyed for the length and distance the said highway shall extend along or through their lands. “7808. Any land owner along or through whose lands public highways are laid out and extended, who shall, in compliance with Section I of this act. cut down and destroy for the length and distance said highway shall extend along or through’ his lands, all briars, thistles, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing along said highway, shall be allowed for such work or service the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents a day. eight hours .to constitute a day. and proportionate thereto: the work to be done under the direction of the supervisor in charge of said road district, and to be credited upon his road taxes as other work is credited. “7809. That any such land owner who neglects, or refuses, after the said 20th day of August, each year, to comply with the requirements specified in first section of this act, the supervisor in charge of said road»district shall hereby be empowered to secure the services of any resident property 1 owner of said road district to cut down and destroy such briars, thistles, burrs and docks and other noxious weeds, said resident property owner to be allowed for such work or service the sum of $1.25 a day, eight hours to constitute a day, and proportionate thereto, and to be credited upon his road tax as other work is credited.” _ ■> i