People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 43. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 43.

Weed Ordinance. An ordinance regulating the growth of weeds on vacant and unoccugied lots, and requiring them to be cut at the expense of the owner or occupant of the lot. . (Ordained and Established July 13. 1896.; Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. Sec. 1, That it shall be unlawful for the owner or occu. pant of any vacant lot or enclosed and unimproved lot in the City of Rensselaer to permit any weeds of a noxious character, thistles, burdocks, sour dock* yellow dock, cockle burr, wild lettuce, prickly lettuce, wild mustard, hemp, wild sun flower, wild parsnip, rag weed, or butter weed, or any other noxious weeds to mature their seed or allow such weeds or plants to make a rank growth. Sec. 2. That after notice by the Marshal it shall be the d»ty of the owner or occupant of any such lot as described in section 1, of this ordinance to cut down all weeds, provided, that a/ter ten days notice to such owner as herein provided, should such owner fail or refuse to cut down and destroy all such weeds and noixous plants, that it shalli be the duty of the Marshal to have the same done at jtherexpense of the owuer or occupant thereof aud the cost of cutting and removing such weeds or noxious plants shall be certified by the said Marshal to ihe Common Council and shall be J)y them ordered to be placed upon the tax duplicate of such City nnd collected as other taxes are collected. Sec. 3, Should the owner or occupant of any lot be convicted of the violation of sections one and two of this ordinance, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeeing Ten ($10.) Dollars for each ofiense. Sec. 4. Whereas: An emergency exists, this ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage and publication according to law.