Glasgow Definitions ordinance (§ 215.020)

The following terms, as used in this Article, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, are defined as follows:

ABATEMENT: The removal, stoppage, prostration, or destruction of that which causes or constitutes a violation or nuisance, whether by breaking or pulling it down, or otherwise destroying, effacing it, or having it hauled away. If abatement is most effective by changing the type of plants in a given location, such as on steep slopes or on highly erodible soil, abatement can be achieved in steps, approved by the enforcement officer as to method and time, to achieve acceptable ground cover that would comply with this Article.

DEBRIS: Includes weed or grass cuttings, cut, fallen, or hazardous trees, limbs, and shrubs, rubbish and trash, lumber not piled or stacked twelve (12) inches off the ground, rocks or bricks, tin, steel, parts of derelict cars or trucks or other vehicles or machinery, or broken furniture, or any other material which is found on any lot or land that is unhealthy or unsafe, which may endanger public health or safety. NOXIOUS PLANTS

Illegal vegetation as defined by Missouri Law or any agency of the State of Missouri: poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac at any height or state of maturity.

OWNER: As used in this Article shall include the real and actual owner of the fee title, the life tenant, occupant, tenant, lessee, tenant at will, tenant at sufferance, person in lawful possession, adverse possessor, and any other person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association asserting control over or having any right, title, or interest in any lot, tract, or parcel of land in the City. The land records filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the County within which any such lot, tract, or parcel of land shall be located, and any other official record of such County or of the City, may be used to determine the identity of such owners, as hereinabove defined, as of any given date.

THICKETS OR BRUSH: Dense growth of wild shrubbery having stems or trunks greater than one-half (1/2) inch in diameter; and briar patches regardless of diameter.

WEEDS: All vegetation eight (8) inches or more in height, including grasses; all vegetation eight (8) inches or more in height, which may emit unpleasant or noxious odors or transmit pollen into the air at any state of maturity; all vegetation, regardless of height, including thickets, which may conceal or invite filthy deposits, harbor rodents, refuse, or vermin, create a fire hazard, or present a blighting effect on the neighborhood.