The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the risk of damage to property and persons by fire and to reduce hazards to public health, agriculture, recreation, and wildlife by controlling the growth of noxious vegetation. The city intends to prioritize enforcement and abatement under this chapter based upon the degree of fire risk or other hazard caused by the violation and the availability of resources.

Permitting such noxious vegetation is unreasonable in an urban area and constitutes a public nuisance. Any person who owns or has the right to control real property assumes an obligation to the rest of the community and is therefore chargeable with knowledge of the growth of noxious vegetation on that property and has a duty to remove any nuisance which reasonable inspection would reveal. [Ord. 925 § 1, 2016.]