§ 28-34. Excessive growth of grass, weeds, and brush on property utilized or zoned for residential, professional office, commercial or industrial use.

(a)

Subject to subsection (b), no owner, agent, custodian, lessee or occupant of property utilized or zoned for residential, professional office, commercial, or industrial use shall permit the excessive growth of grass, weeds, or brush on any exterior portion of the property. Accordingly, such owner, agent, custodian, lessee or occupant shall cut, trim or remove such vegetation, and keep such vegetation cut, trimmed or removed, so that it is not in a state of excessive growth.

(b)

Except in those cases where there is an imminent public health threat as determined by the code enforcement division manager or his or her delegates, subsection (a) shall not be construed to prohibit property vegetative growth that is a mature Florida ecological community, as defined by the soils conservation service in its publication entitled, 26 Ecological Communities in Florida, or any similar successor publication, (such publication shall be kept is on file with the code enforcement division manager).

(Code 1965, § 16-29; Ord. No. 88-1, § 12, 1-11-88; Ord. No. 89-11, § 1(12), 8-7-89; Ord. No. 93-07, § 5, 4-6-93; Ord. No. 98-17, § 5, 8-11-98; Ord. No. 2005-10 , § 8, 8-30-05)