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6.517 Eugene Code 6.523 <br />6.517 Obnoxious Vegetation - Waiver Where strict compliance with the --;� <br />requirements of section 6.515 would be impracticable as they apply <br />to a type of obnoxious vegetation, to the height of weeds or grass, to height <br />of tree branches, or to a part of a parcel of property, the director of <br />public works may waive those requirements as they so apply. <br />(Section 6.517 amended by Ordinance No. 17073, enacted May 20, 1974, <br />Ordinance No. 18199, enacted May 31, 1978; and Ordinance No. 19393, enacted <br />July 28, 1986, effective January 28, 1987.) <br />6.519 Obnoxious Vegetation - Notice <br />(1) Between May 1 and June 15 of each year the finance officer <br />shall cause to be published three times in a newspaper of general circulation <br />in the city a copy of section 6.515, as notice to all persons responsible for <br />property of their duty to keep their undeveloped property free of obnoxious <br />vegetation. The notice shall state that the city is willing to abate such a <br />nuisance on any particular parcel of undeveloped property at the request of <br />the owner or person in charge of the property, for a fee sufficient to cover <br />the city's costs of such abatement. The notice shall also state that, even <br />in the absence of such requests, the city intends to abate all such nuisances <br />ten or more days after the final publication of the notice, and to charge the <br />cost of doing so on any particular parcel of property plus a penalty to the <br />person responsible or the property itself. <br />(2) In addition to the published notice, the finance officer shall <br />send by first class mail postage prepaid, a copy of the published notice to <br />any person responsible for undeveloped property as shown on the Lane County <br />tax rolls or upon records of the city. The failure to receive the mailed <br />notice shall not relieve any person responsible from the obligation to abate <br />obnoxious vegetation or to pay the cost of abatement performed by the city. <br />(Section 6.519 amended by Ordinance No. 17073, enacted May 20, 1974, and <br />Ordinance No. 19393 enacted July 28, 1986, effective January 28, 1987.) <br />6.521 Obnoxious Vegetation - Private Abatement <br />(1) Within 10 days after the third publication of the notice for <br />which section 6.519 provides, or as soon thereafter as a nuisance as defined <br />in section 6.515 occurs, the person responsible for the property where such <br />a nuisance occurs shall abate the nuisance, except as subsection (2) of this <br />section provides to the contrary. <br />(2) The person responsible for property who is apprehensive that <br />vegetation on the property is likely to be allegedly in violation of section <br />6.515, or who denies that a nuisance as defined in that section exists on <br />the property, may file with the finance officer a written protest denying <br />that such a nuisance exists on the property. The city manager or his desig- <br />nate shall then determine whether the nuisance does so exist. That deter- <br />mination shall be final. If it is affirmative, the person responsible shall <br />cause the nuisance to be abated within ten days after the determination. <br />(Section 6.521 amended by Ordinance No. 17073, enacted May 20, 1974, and <br />Ordinance No. 19393, enacted July 28, 1986, effective January 28, 1987.) <br />6.523 Obnoxious Vegetation - Abatement by City; Penalty <br />(1) If, within the ten days allowed by section 6.521 for abating <br />a nuisance as defined in section 6.515, the nuisance has not been privately <br />abated, the city manager or his designate shall cause it to be abated. <br />6 -28 <br />02/16/87 <br />