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BALTIMORE COUNTY

BILL NO. 75-72

AN ACT to regulate the growth of grass and ordinary
weeds and to eliminate the growth of noxious
weeds in Baltimore County; to provide for notice
to the owner or person in charge of land where
such weeds have been allowed to grow; to provide
for compliance with an order of the department of
health to control such growth; to provide that
after non-compliance within a certain period the
County may cut or destroy weeds and the expense
thus incurred shall be charged to the owner of
said land, which expense shall constitute a lien
upon the realty; to make it a criminal offense
for any owner, occupant or person in control of
any land to allow certain growth on said land;
and to establish the penalty for such violation
upon conviction thereof, by adding new Sections
13-114 through 13-116 to the Baltimore County
Code, 1968, under new Article X. Weed Control,
title "Health & Sanitation."

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL
OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND, That new Sections
13-114 through 13-116, under new Article X. Weed
Control, be and they are hereby added to the Baltimore
County Code, 1968, title "Health & Sanitation," said
new Sections to read as follows:

SECTION 13-114. PROHIBITED ACTS; CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

(A) IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY OWNER, OCCUPANT
OH PERSON IN CONTROL OF ANY LOT OR PARCELS OF LAND
WITHIN BALTIMORE COUNTY TO ALLOW OR MAINTAIN ON ANY
SUCH LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND ANY GROWTH OF GRASS, WEEDS
OR OTHER RANK VEGETATION TO A HEIGHT OVER ONE FOOT;
AND EVERY OWNER, OCCUPANT OR PERSON IN CONTROL OF ANY
LOT OR LANDS WITHIN BALTIMORE COUNTY SHALL CAUSE SAID
LOT OR LANDS TO BE KEPT FREE FROM RAGWEEDS, POISON IVY
AND ALL OTHER NOXIOUS WEEDS WHICH ARE GENERALLY KNOWN
TO BE EITHER ALLERGENIC, SKIN IRRITANT OR TOXIC WHEN
INGESTED. SUCH WEEDS MAY BE DESTROYED BY SPRAYING
WITH A CHEMICAL COMPOUND, BY CUTTING AND REMOVAL, BY
PLOWING UNDER, OR BY SUCH OTHER METHOD RECOMMENDED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

(B) THE ABOVE REQUIREMENT MAY BE MODIFIED AT THE