Chapter 8.04
WEED CONTROL*
Sections:
8.04.010 Owner responsibilities.
8.04.030 City authority to remove – Lien.
*For statutory provisions authorizing a city to require a property owner to remove obstructing vegetation, see RCW 35.21.310.
8.04.010 Owner responsibilities.
The owner of any land in the city shall remove or destroy all trees, shrubs, plants or vegetation growing upon his land, or parts thereof, which overhang any sidewalk or streets, or any part thereof, in such a manner as to obstruct or impair the free and full use of the sidewalk or street by the public; further, the owner of any land in the city shall remove or destroy all grass, weeds, shrubs, bushes, trees or vegetation growing or which has grown and some died upon an owner’s land and which are a fire hazard or a menace to public health, safety or welfare. [Ord. 325 §1, 1954].
8.04.020 Notice to abate.
Proceedings in respect to the enforcement of this chapter shall be initiated by a resolution adopted by the city council, adopted after not less than 15 days notice in writing personally delivered or sent through the United States mail to the owner, which shall describe the land involved and the hazardous condition, and require the owner to make removal or destruction of the trees, shrubs, plants or vegetation described in such notice within 15 days after such notice is delivered personally to the owner or after such notice is posted at the United States Post Office at Palouse, Washington, in an envelope properly addressed to the owner and carrying sufficient postage. [Ord. 325 §2, 1954].
8.04.030 City authority to remove – Lien.
If such removal or destruction is not made by the owner after notice given as required in PMC 8.04.020, then the city may cause the removal or destruction thereof, and the cost to the city for making such removal or destruction shall become a charge against the owner of the land and a lien against his land. Notice of the lien herein authorized shall, as nearly as practicable, be in substantially the same form, filed with the same officer, within the same time and manner and enforced and foreclosed as is provided by the laws of the state for liens for labor and material. [Ord. 325 §3, 1954].