[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Greenville
(now Village Board of the Village of Greenville) 6-10-2002 by Ord. No.
38; amended in its entirety 5-11-2009. Subsequent amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A.
Authority. This chapter is adopted pursuant to authority conferred
by §§ 66.0407 and 66.0517, Wis. Stats.
B.
Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health,
safety and welfare of the Village of Greenville by requiring the destruction
of noxious and nuisance weeds and establishing minimum landscape maintenance
standards for lots within recorded subdivision plats.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The complete killing of weeds or the killing of weed plants
above the surface of the ground by the use of chemicals, cutting,
tillage, cropping system, pasturing livestock, or any or all of these
in effective combination, at a time and in a manner as will effectively
prevent weed plants from maturing to the bloom or flower stage.
Native and naturalized plants, including but not limited to ferns, wildflowers, grasses, shrubs and trees, grown in a managed landscape; provided, however, that noxious weed and nuisance weeds are prohibited and subject to destruction under § 307-3A.
Canada thistle, leafy spurge and field bindweed (creeping
jenny).
Any nonnative member of the genus Lythrium (purple loosestrife)
or hybrids thereof, multiflora rose, common ragweed (Ambrosia atemisiifolia),
giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) and burdock (Arctium spp.).
A subdivision plat recorded with the Outagamie County Register
of Deeds office under plats.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The Village of Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
A.
Destruction of noxious weeds. Any person owning, occupying or controlling
land within the Village of Greenville shall destroy all noxious weeds
on the land.
B.
Maintenance of lots and yards.
(1)
Any
person owning, occupying or controlling any developed lot or yard
within a recorded subdivision plat or within the Village shall remove
or cut all untended and unmanaged weed and grass growth which has
grown to a height greater than eight inches.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(2)
Any
person owning, occupying or controlling any undeveloped lot or yard
within a recorded subdivision plat or within the Village shall remove
or cut unattended and unmanaged weed and grass growth within a fifty-foot
swath on the property along the border of any adjacent rights-of-way
or any adjacent developed property with buildings.
C.
Maintenance of managed natural landscape. Any person owning, occupying
or controlling any lot or yard within a recorded subdivision plat
or within the Village containing a managed natural landscape shall
destroy all noxious weeds and nuisance weeds.
A.
Village Weed Commissioner. The Village Weed Commissioner shall investigate the existence of noxious weeds within the Village, and nuisance weeds and untended and unmanaged weed and grass growth which has grown to a height greater than eight inches on a lot or yard within a recorded subdivision plat or within the Village. Upon discovering the existence of noxious weeds, the Weed Commissioner may notify the office of the Clerk to give 10 days' written notice by mail to the owner or occupant of the land containing noxious weeds to destroy such weeds. If a person fails or neglects to destroy, remove, or cut such vegetation as required in § 307-3, the Weed Commissioner shall destroy or cut such vegetation in the most economical manner. The Weed Commissioner, or designee, may enter upon lands to cut, remove or destroy such without being liable to an action for such trespass or any other action for damages resulting from the entry, cutting, removal, or destruction if reasonable care is exercised.
[Amended 10-13-2014;
at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
Records and charges. The Weed Commissioner shall keep a written account
specifying by separate items the amount chargeable to each piece of
land, describing the land, which shall be filed with the Village Clerk.
The Clerk shall enter the amount chargeable to each piece of land
in the next tax roll in a column headed "For the Destruction of Weeds,"
as a tax on the lands upon which weeds were destroyed, cut or removed.
The tax shall be collected under Chapter 74, Wis. Stats., except in
case of lands which are exempt from taxation, railroad lands or other
lands for which taxes are not collected under Chapter 74. A delinquent
tax may be collected as is a delinquent real property tax under Chapters
74 and 75 or as is a delinquent personal property tax under Chapter
74. In case of railroad lands or other lands for which taxes are not
collected under Chapter 74, the amount chargeable against these lands
shall be certified by the Village Clerk to the State Treasurer, who
shall add the amount designated to the sum due from the company owning,
occupying or controlling the lands specified.
