NOTICE TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the owner or lessee of every lot or parcel of land in the City of Waupun, Wisconsin, to control noxious weeds and rank growth in full compliance with Section 10.11 of the Waupun Municipal Code as stated below: 10.11 CONTROL OF NOXIOUS WEEDS AND RANK GROWTH. (1) AUTHORITY. This ordinance is enacted pursuant to § 66.98, Wis. Stats., and this provision of the Wisconsin Statutes is adopted by reference and made a part of this ordinance as if set forth here in full. (2) NOXIOUS WEEDS, RANK GROWTH, AND ACCUMULATED YARD WASTE PROHIBITED. Every person shall destroy all noxious weeds and cut all rank growth on real estate which he or she owns, occupies or controls within the City. Every person shall maintain the public right of way immediately adjacent to real estate which he or she owns, occupies or controls within the City free and clear of accumulated yard waste. (3) DEFINITION OF TERMS. (a) Noxious Weeds. (Am. #07-06) Weeds and plants known as thistle, leafy spurge, creeping jenny, pigweed, quack grass and all other forms and types of weeds and grasses or herbaceous plants which are useless and without special beauty or growing to the injury of a crop or desired vegetation or to the disfigurement of a place or underbrush. The term "noxious weeds" shall not include a crop, vegetables, ornamental and decorative flowers, shrubs, bushes and plants. (b) Destroy. The complete killing of noxious weeds or the killing of weed plants above the surface of the ground by the use of chemicals, cutting or tillage, at such time and in such manner as will keep such plants below 6 inches in height and will effectively prevent such plants from maturing to the bloom or flowering state. (c) Rank Growth. Grasses of any kind more than 6 inches in height. (d) Accumulated Yard Waste. Accumulated brush, weeds, grass, tree branches, leaves, and other similar organic matter. (4) NOTICE. (Am. #07-06) The Weed Commissioner shall annually, on or before May 1, cause to be posted in at least 3 conspicuous places in the City and published at least once each week for 2 consecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the City, a notice that every person is required by law to destroy all noxious weeds and cut rank growth, as defined here, on real estate in the City which he or she owns, occupies or controls. (5) ELIMINATION OF WEEDS, RANK GROWTH AND ACCUMULATED YARD WASTE BY WEED COMMISSIONER. (a) The Weed Commissioner shall investigate the existence of noxious weeds, rank growth and accumulated yard waste in the City, and if any person fails or neglects to destroy noxious weeds, cut rank growth or timely remove accumulated yard waste as required here, the Weed Commissioner shall, without further notice, destroy such noxious weeds, cut such rank growth and dispose of such yard waste, and shall cause the costs to be charged to the owner of the real estate on which the weeds, rank growth or yard waste was located. (b) The cost of destruction, cutting and disposal shall be charged to the property owner at the rate charged by the City's contractor, together with an administrative fee as established annually by the Common Council on the Fee Schedule. These costs are not to be considered a penalty, but are to reimburse the City for its cost in administration and overhead. (Am. #06-11) (c) Such costs shall be certified to the Clerk-Treasurer, specifying by separate items the amount chargeable to each piece of land, describing the same, and the Clerk-Treasurer shall enter the amount chargeable to each tract of land in the next tax roll in a column headed "For Elimination of Weeds and Rank Growth" as a tax on the lands upon which such weeds were destroyed or rank growth cut, which tax shall be collected as other taxes are. (d) The Weed Commissioner and his agents, representatives and employees may enter on any real estate in the City on which any noxious weeds or rank growth are present, and cut or otherwise destroy them without being liable to an action for trespass or any other action for damages resulting from such entry and destruction, if reasonable care is exercised in the performance of the duties imposed here. WNAXLP April 20, 27 2026 LWIX0478404