Bend, OR Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

010(A) states plainly that no person shall allow the growth of noxious vegetation on property they own within the Bend city limits, an outright prohibition rather than a permit or registration scheme. 010(B) authorizes the City Manager to prepare and revise a list of plants considered noxious vegetation, and lets the City Manager adopt all or part of an existing noxious-weed list developed by any state or county entity, tying Bend's local prohibition to state or county noxious weed determinations without needing a code amendment every time a species is added.

010(C) extends the removal duty beyond the owner's own parcel: property owners must also remove noxious vegetation growing in the public right-of-way directly adjacent to their property, though the code excludes medians and roundabouts from that adjacent-owner duty, leaving those areas to the City. 00, the same top penalty tier used for the chapter's flammable-vegetation violations. 010 treats a continuing nuisance as a new violation every day it exists, an owner who leaves a listed noxious species growing after being notified can face a fresh penalty for each day of continued growth until the plant is removed.