[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Edgeworth 1-16-1925 by Ord. No. 161. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It shall be the duty of every person or persons,
firms or corporations, owners, tenants, occupiers or persons in possession
of improved or unimproved lots or other premises in the Borough of
Edgeworth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, upon which thistles, wild
carrots, dodder cockles, burdock, daisy, ragweed, poison ivy or other
weeds of similar obnoxious growths may be growing to cut and destroy
the same so as to prevent such weeds from maturing, going to seed
or in any other manner multiplying.
[Amended 3-12-1996 by Ord. No. 455]
Any person or persons, firms or corporations,
owners, tenants, occupiers or persons in possession of any premises
or improved or unimproved lots in the Borough of Edgeworth who shall
permit or suffer such obnoxious weeds to so grow either in or upon
the same shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and if, after five
days' notice from the Borough Council or any officer designated by
said Borough Council to remove or destroy said nuisance, he or they
shall refuse or neglect to comply with said notice, he or they shall
be deemed guilty of a violation of this chapter and, upon conviction
thereof before any District Justice, shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding $25 and, in default of payment thereof, be committed to
the county prison for a period not exceeding 25 days.
The Borough, by its proper officers, may enter
upon said premises upon which said nuisance may stand to abate the
same, and the Borough may then proceed to collect the costs of abating
said nuisance from the owner of said premises in the same manner as
debts of like amount are now collected by law.
