Town of Boonton, NJ
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2023-11-06
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 254 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article VII Grass and Weeds
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities and Utilities
- Ch 10 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 16 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 18 Contracts
- Ch 19 Court, Municipal
- Ch 24 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 27 Departments
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 36 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 45 Officers and Employees
- Ch 48 Personnel Policies
- Ch 52 Seal and Flag
- Ch 55 Mayor and Town Council
- Ch 60 Wards and Districts
- Ch 61 Prior Notice of Meetings
- Ch 62 Public Meetings and Agendas
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 70 Affordable Housing
- Ch 72 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 76 (Reserved)
- Ch 80 Animals
- Ch 87 Building and Housing
- Ch 90 Buildings and Structures, Unsafe
- Ch 92 Business Insurance Registration
- Ch 95 Canvassers, Solicitors and Peddlers
- Ch 100 Cigarette Vending Machines
- Ch 103 Circuses and Carousels
- Ch 107 Clothing Depositories
- Ch 113 Dance Halls
- Ch 118 Drug-Free School Zones
- Ch 121 Dumpsters
- Ch 124 Entertainment
- Ch 130 Fees
- Ch 132 Filming
- Ch 134 Firearms
- Ch 137 Fire Prevention
- Ch 140 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 144 Games of Chance
- Ch 148 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 154 Inspections
- Ch 157 Insurance
- Ch 159 Invasive Plants
- Ch 167 Library
- Ch 170 Littering
- Ch 174 (Reserved)
- Ch 180 Massage Establishments
- Ch 186 Motorized Sportbikes
- Ch 194 Noise
- Ch 201 Parking
- Ch 205 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 210 Pool Rooms
- Ch 214 Property Maintenance
- Ch 215 Registration of Foreclosing Mortgaged and Vacant Property
- Ch 216 Recycling
- Ch 218 Residential Properties
- Ch 220 (Reserved)
- Ch 225 Sales
- Ch 228 Security Gates
- Ch 229 Sewer and Water
- Ch 233 Signs
- Ch 238 Smoke Control
- Ch 240 Smoking
- Ch 243 Soil Removal, Filling and Grading Activities
- Ch 246 Solid Waste
- Ch 249 Stormwater Regulations
- Ch 254 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 254 Art VII Grass and Weeds
- § 254-37 Permitting unreasonable growth on sidewalks and gutters unlawful.
- § 254-38 Penalty; removal by Town.
- Ch 259 Swimming Pools
- Ch 265 Limousines
- Ch 270 Theaters and Motion Picture Houses
- Ch 276 Towing
- Ch 281 Trees
- Ch 289 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 300 Zoning and Land Use
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 301 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 303 Board of Health Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A305 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
It shall be unlawful for the tenant or owner of any lands abutting
upon the public roads in the Town to permit any growth of grass or
weeds or to allow other impediments in or on the abutting sidewalks
and gutters of such roads.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
If, upon three days' notice to remove the grass, weeds or other impediments from the abutting sidewalks and gutters, the tenants or owners of the abutting lands shall fail to remove the same, they or each of them shall be subject to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, General Penalty, or the Town by its proper agents may remove the same and the cost thereof shall be certified to the governing body, which shall examine such certificate and shall cause such cost to be charged against such real estate so abutting upon such sidewalk or gutter thereof, and the amount so charged shall thereupon become a lien and tax upon such real estate and be added to and be part of the taxes to be levied and assessed thereon, and enforced and collected with interest by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes.
