It is hereby declared to be a public nuisance for any person, firm, corporation or
any owner, agent, occupant or person in possession, charge or control of any lot,
tract, parcel of land, building or other premises within the village or within its
territorial jurisdiction to permit the growth upon any premises within the village
of any bush of the species of tall, common or European barberry, further known as
Barberia vulgaria, or its horticultural varieties, and any noxious weeds, such as
blue vervain, buckthorn, burdock, bull nettle, burdock, cockleburr, common milk weed,
curled dock, dodders, field bindweed, giant foxtail, hoary cress, jimson weed, Johnson
grass, lambsquarter, leafy spurge, marijuana or wild hemp, multiflora rose, purple
loosestrife, ragweed, ox-eye daisy, poison ivy, thistle (bull, Canada, sowthistle
or musk), quack grass, ragweed (giant or common), Russian knapweed, rough pigweed,
sweet clover, teasel, wild carrot, wild lettuce, wild garlic, wild mustard or like
weeds having similar undesirable characteristics as determined by the village code
enforcement officer or the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. It shall be unlawful to permit any such weeds to grow
or remain on property within the village.
