§ 78-27. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Enforcement officer means person or persons authorized and empowered by the Auburn Hills City Council and/or the Auburn Hills City Code to issue and serve municipal civil infraction citations for alleged violations to this article.

Eradicate means to get rid of, to wipe out, to destroy entirely, whether by the working of natural processes or human interaction.

Grass means any plant of the family Gramineae (or Poaceae) characterized by jointed stems, sheathing leaves, flower spikelets, and fruit consisting of a seed-like grain or caryopsis.

Improved property means any real property that is or has been put to residential, commercial, office, warehouse, institutional, or industrial uses including for the purpose of this article the abutting street right-of-way lying between the curb and sidewalk or the drainage course paralleling the street where there is no curb abutting the property. In addition, any lot in any subdivision where buildings have been erected on 50 percent or more of the lots of such subdivision shall be defined as improved property.

Noxious weeds means Canada thistle (Circium arvense), dodders, (any species of Custa), mustards (charlock, black mustard and Indian mustard, species of Brassica or Sinapis), wild carrot (Caucus carata), bindweed (convolvulus arvenis), perennial sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis), hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana), ragweed (ambrosia elatior) poison ivy (rhus toxicondendron), poison sumac (toxicondendron vermis), oxeyes daises, ragweed, goldenrod, or other plants which are recognized as deleterious to health, safety, or public welfare and recognized as common nuisance.

Rank vegetation means profuse or unmanageable communities of plants in a region.

Unimproved property means all vacant real property abutting public or private streets including, for the purpose of this article the abutting street right-of-way lying between the curb and sidewalk and the drainage course paralleling the street where there is no curb abutting such properties.

(Ord. No. 769, § 1, 3-20-06)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.