The code enforcement official, or designee, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1.25 ACC, is authorized and empowered to notify the owner of any private property within the city or the agent of such owner to properly cut and remove all grass, weeds, brush and other vegetation growing in violation of ACC 8.20.010 and 8.20.020 which is dangerous to public health, safety and welfare. The notice shall be sent in the same manner, containing the same contents, and to the same individuals or entities as is required by ACC 1.25.030, as hereafter amended, for notices to correct a violation. A violation of any of the provisions of this chapter by any person, firm or corporation shall be a civil infraction or subject to a civil penalty, punishable in accordance with Chapter 1.25 ACC, except where the violation is designated as a misdemeanor as provided in ACC 1.25.050.

For the purposes of this chapter, a person’s property shall include any landscape strip that abuts the person’s property. A landscape strip, also known as a parking strip, planting area, or planting strip, is the ground area situated between the edge of the roadway pavement or gravel and the edge of the right-of-way boundary. (Ord. 6615 § 13, 2016; Ord. 6328 § 3, 2010; Ord. 5837 § 7, 2004; Ord. 5747 § 3, 2003; Ord. 4504 § 10, 1991; Ord. 4040 § 2, 1985.)