[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Weymouth 4-20-1988 by Ord. No. 283-88 (Ch. III, Sec. 3-3 of the 1980 Revised General Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Property maintenance — See Ch. 188.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant of premises abutting or bordering upon any street, avenue or highway of the Township to allow any brush, weeds or other obnoxious growth or impediment to grow thereon or to allow anywhere within the Township, the accumulation of dying trees which will prevent free or uninterrupted passage or become a public health, safety or fire hazard thereon.
[Amended 6-19-1996 by Ord. No. 344-96]
Any owner or occupant of any premises, neglecting to remove any brush, weeds, dead or dying trees or other obnoxious growth, filth, garbage, trash and debris, auto bodies and parts or other impediments from the lands and premises in the Township within 10 days after being notified to remove the same by Mayor or members of the Township Committee or an appropriate officer designated by them, shall be deemed as having failed to comply with this chapter.
Upon the failure of any owner or occupant of any premises to remove any brush, weeds, debris, auto bodies and parts, within the 10 days after notification, the Township Committee or designated officer shall cause the same to be removed, and the cost thereof, as nearly as can be ascertained, shall be certified to the officer or officers whose duty it is to assess and levy the taxes of the Township. The cost shall thereupon be charged against the lands and premises and become and be a first and paramount lien upon the lands and premises, and shall be added to and become and form a part of the taxes assessed against the lands and premises, and collected with and in the same manner as the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon the lands and premises. The same is to bear interest at the same rate as taxes, and shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
A. 
The imposition and collection of the fine imposed by this chapter shall not bar the right of the Township to collect the cost of removal in the manner as required in this section, and the remedy shall be cumulative.
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The Township Committee may by its resolution designate a person to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
[Added 6-19-1996 by Ord. No. 344-96]
For violation of any provision of this chapter, the penalties as set forth in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Art. III, General Penalty, shall apply.