Lake Elsinore runs a Hazardous Vegetation and Rubbish Abatement Program under LEMC 8.18.152, adopted under Government Code 39501-39502. Owners must clear weeds, dry grass, brush, and rubbish that create a fire hazard, with a 30-day notice and City-cost abatement for non-compliant parcels.
LEMC 8.18.152 establishes the City's Hazardous Vegetation and Rubbish Abatement Program under Government Code Sections 39501 and 39502. It defines weeds to include seed-bearing growth, sagebrush, chaparral and brush that becomes a dry fire menace, poison oak or ivy, overgrowth harboring rats or vermin, and dry grass, stubble, or brush creating a fire hazard. It is unlawful and a public nuisance to let weeds, hazardous vegetation, or rubbish negatively affect public health or safety, and LEMC 8.18.152(D) makes every owner, lessee, and occupant clear them from their property and adjacent sidewalks and parkways. Owners may comply by disking, mowing, or other methods in the notice; appeals run through LEMC 8.18.040 and must be filed in writing within 15 days.
Under LEMC 8.18.152(I), if 30 days pass with no abatement or written appeal, City crews may abate the nuisance. The City keeps an itemized cost accounting (LEMC 8.18.090) and recovers it by lien or special assessment (LEMC 8.18.110-.120).
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