Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-06-20
ORDINANCE NO. 6S5.

An ordinance to protect the public
against danger, injury and infection
from poison oak and poison ivy and
TO provide for the determination of
the same, and to provide for creating
lien on the premises and penalty
for violation Of this ordinance.
The City of Grants Pass Ordains as
follows:
Section /. Those certain plants or
shrubs commonly known as poison
oak, and poison ivy, are hereby de-
clared to be dangerous and nuis-
ance.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of
every owner or occupant of lots,
blocks or parcels of lands in the city
of Grants Pass to keep the said lands
and the one-half of the street or al
ley abutting thereon, at all times free
from any poison oak or poison ivy.
Section 3. On written complaint
of any citizen filed with the auditor,
complaining that any lot, parcel of
land, or acreage property within the
limits of the city of Grants Pass, is
infected with, or has growing there
on, poison oak or ivy, it shall be the
duty of such officer to issue a notice
to the owner or owners of such land,
that complaint has been filed as afore-
said, and that under the ordinances in
force, it is the duty of such owner
to remove said poison oak or ivy by
destroying and exterminating the
same within ten days from the date
of such notice, and that on failure of
the owner to abate said nuisance
within said time, the marshal of the
city of Grants Pass, would cause the
same to be removed and the cost
thereof charged as lien against the
land described in the notice, and en-
tered on, the Docket of City Liens,
to be foreclosed as other liens of the
city of Grants Pass
Section 4. In case the owner of
any lot, parcel of land or acreage
property affected with poison oak or
ivy be unknown, or absent from the
city, the notice provided in section
3 Of this ordinance shall be posted on
the property affected for ten days,
warning the owner to abate said nuis-
ance by destroying the same on or be-
fore the date limited by the notice.
and that in default the same shall be
destroyed by the marshal and the
cost thereof charged as lien against
the property described in the notice,
and as such be entered on the Docket
of City Liens to be foreclosed as 9TH
er city liens.
Section 5. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this ordi-
nance, shall be punished by fine OF
not less than $500, nor more than
$4,000 in addition to the lien i'm
posed agains- his or her property as
in this ordinance provided.
Sevtion G. Whereas, in various
parts of the city, poison oak and pois-
on ivy are growing and increasing.
and whereas. the same is the cause of
painful skin affection in human be-
ings who may go in the vicinity Of
the same, the presence thereof is de-
clared to be nuisance to the health
and safety of the inhabitants Of the
city. and for that reason this ordi-
nance is declared necessary to the
health and safety of the inhabitants
of the city, and this ordinance is
therefore exempted from the refer
endum and shall take effect from and
after its approval by the mayor.
Approved this the 5th day Of June,
A. D., 1913.
ROBERT G. SMITH, Mayor
Attest Robert II. Creager,
Auditor and Police Judge OF
the City of grants Pass