City of Hackensack, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Offices
- Ch 3A Hackensack Municipal Alliance
- Ch 3B Stigma Free Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Board of Education
- Ch 5 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 6 Building, Housing and Land Use Department
- Ch 7 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 9 Charges Against City Employees
- Ch 11 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Communications Department
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 13A Condominium, Cooperative and Multi-Unit Rental Buildings Advisory Board
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Economic Development Commission
- Ch 17 Employment
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission and Green Team
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Department
- Ch 24 Housing Authority
- Ch 24A Information Technology Department
- Ch 25 Insurance Fund
- Ch 26 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 27 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Parking System, Public
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Records, Public
- Ch 36 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 36A Cultural Arts, Department of
- Ch 37 Rules of Order
- Ch 38 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 40 Seal
- Ch 41 Senior Citizen Advisory Board
- Ch 42 Shade Tree Advisory Committee
- Ch 43 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 44 Abandoned and Nuisance Properties
- Ch 45 Advertising Materials
- Ch 45A Affordable Housing
- Ch 46 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 47 Alarm Devices
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Amusement Machines, Automatic
- Ch 52 Animals
- Ch 54 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 56 Automobile Driving Schools
- Ch 58 Automobile Sales, Used
- Ch 60 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 63 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Sleds
- Ch 64 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 66 Boarding and Rooming Houses; Nursing Homes
- Ch 67 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing, Permanent Cosmetics and Tattooing
- Ch 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- § 68-1 Removal of obnoxious material required.
- § 68-2 Trimming of brush and hedges.
- § 68-3 Notices of removal or violation.
- § 68-4 Performance of work by city; assessment of costs.
- Ch 69 Cannabis Businesses
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 72 Checks, Fraudulent and Returned
- Ch 74 Child-Care Facilities
- Ch 75 Community Garden
- Ch 76 Drug and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 78 Dry-Cleaning Establishments and Laundries
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Exterminators; Fumigation; Vermin Control
- Ch 86 Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 88 Fire Prevention
- Ch 89 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 90 Food and Drink
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Gardeners, Landscapers, Horticulturists, and Snow Removal Business
- Ch 95 Graffiti
- Ch 96 Guarantees and Bonds
- Ch 97 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 98 Heating and Hot Water
- Ch 99 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 100 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 101 Insurance
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Secondhand
- Ch 104 Junkyards and Storage Yards
- Ch 106 Library
- Ch 107 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 108 Limousine Services
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 110 Mechanical Code
- Ch 111 Massage Establishments
- Ch 112 Noise
- Ch 114 Nuisances
- Ch 115 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 116 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 117 Parks
- Ch 119 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 121 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Poolrooms
- Ch 127 Private Property, Parking on
- Ch 129 Public Bathing Places
- Ch 132 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Ch 133 Relocation of Displaced Tenants
- Ch 134 Rent Stabilization
- Ch 138 Sales, Special
- Ch 140 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 141 Sewers
- Ch 143 Shopping Carts
- Ch 145 Smoke Emission
- Ch 146 Soil Removal
- Ch 147 Special Improvement District
- Ch 148 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Taxation
- Ch 155 Taxicabs
- Ch 158 Tourist Lodges and Camps
- Ch 159 Towers and Wreckers
- Ch 159A Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 160 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 162 Trees
- Ch 165 Truck and Bus Terminals
- Ch 166 Uniform Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 168 Vehicles and Property, Abandoned
- Ch 170 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 173 Waterfront Cleanup Program
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Ch 176 Newsracks
- Appendix
- Ch A180 Building Lines
- Ch A181 Franchises
- Ch A182 9-1-1 Telephone System
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hackensack 11-1-1948 as Ord. No. 383; amended and revised 10-5-1959 (Ord. No. 717) as Ch. 8, Article IV,
Section 3, of the 1959 Revised Ordinances. Section 68-2 amended and § 68-3
added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Article
I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
All owners or tenants of land lying within the limits of the city are hereby required to remove or cause to be removed from such lands and from abutting sidewalks and gutters any brush, grass, weeds, dead or dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious filth, growth, garbage and debris or other such impediments when notified as provided in § 68-3 below.
[Amended 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74; 9-5-1978 by Ord. No. 39-78]
All owners or tenants of land lying within the limits of the city wherein
or whereupon brush, hedges and other plant life are growing within 10 feet
of any sidewalk or roadway and within 25 feet of the intersection of two roadways
are hereby required to keep the same cut and trimmed to a height of not more
than three feet.
[Added 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74]
B.
Such notices shall contain a brief statement of the removal
required to be effected or of the violation to be corrected and shall specify
a time period of not less than seven nor more than 14 days within which such
work shall be completed.
C.
Such notices shall also bear the statement that if the
provisions of the notice are not complied with within the specified time period,
the necessary work will be performed at the direction of the city, and any
necessary costs pertaining thereto shall be assessed against the property.
A.
If, after service of the notice in accordance with § 68-3 above, the aforesaid removal or trimming as prescribed in § 68-1 or 68-2 of this chapter is not performed by the owner or tenant within the time specified in such notice, the removal or trimming may be undertaken by the city under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Works, and the cost thereof shall be charged to the owners or tenants of such lands and shall be payable to the city within 30 days after the time of the submission of said charges.
B.
Unless such charges are paid within said thirty-day period,
the cost aforesaid shall become a lien upon the lands involved and shall be
collected as provided by N.J.R.S. 40:48-2.14.
C.
If the city effects such removal, such
costs shall be certified by said Superintendent to the Tax Collector and to
the City Council, upon whose confirmation the Tax Collector shall charge the
same as a lien upon the lands and part of the taxes next to be assessed and
levied upon such lands.
