Dexter: Adoption of General Code Ordinances Amendment

CITY OF DEXTER
ORDINANCE # 2022 – XX

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE

GENERAL CODE OF ORDINANCES

Notice is hereby given that the Dexter City Council adopted the following amendment to its Code of Ordinances at a Regular Meeting on Monday, November 28, 2022, which was called to order by Mayor Keough, at 7:00 pm.

MEMBERS PRESENT: Arab, Griffin, Hubbard, Michels, Semifero, Schlaff, Keough MEMBERS ABSENT: None

The City of Dexter hereby Ordains:

SECTION 1. Amendment to City of Dexter General Code of Ordinances, Chapters 18 and 62: An Ordinance to amend Chapter 18, Environment to delete Section 18-31(b), growth of lawn, noxious weeds, or other harmful plants over eight (8) inches in height; and to amend Chapter 62, Vegetation to add a new Article III, for the purpose of regulating the growth of lawn, noxious weeds, or other harmful plants over eight inches in height, as follows:

Article III – Grass and Weed Control

Sec. 62-50 62-50 Unlawful growth

Sec. 62-51 Responsibility of Owner and/or Occupant

Sec. 62-52 Enforcement Officer

Sec. 62-53 General notice by publication to owner, occupant to abate

Sec. 62-54. Specific notice by first class mail to owner to abate; civil infraction

Sec. 62-55. Abatement by city

Sec. 62-56 Penalty

The full text has been omitted from this notice, due to its length, but is available for review at the City Offices, 8123 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Dexter, Michigan, 48130, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on business days and on the City’s website at www.dextermi.gov.

SECTION 2. Repeal: Any Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. Severability: The various parts, sections and clauses of this Ordinance are hereby declared to be severable. If any part, sentence, paragraph, section, or clause is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the Ordinance shall not be affected thereby.

SECTION 4. Effective Date:
This Ordinance shall become effective upon publication of a notice in a newspaper circulated in the City, stating the date of the enactment and the effective date of the ordinance, a brief notice as to the subject matter of this ordinance, and such other facts as the City Clerk shall deem pertinent and that a copy of the ordinance is available for public use and inspection at the office of the City Clerk.

STATE OF MICHIGAN

COUNTY of WASHTENAW

CERTIFICATION

I, Justin Breyer, City Clerk for the City of Dexter, State of Michigan, do hereby certify that at a regular meeting of the Dexter City Council, held 7:00 PM, on the 28th Day of November, 2022, that the above Ordinance was ADOPTED after a Public Hearing by the City of Dexter City Council.

That upon motion made by Michels and seconded by Griffin, said Ordinance was ADOPTED on the following roll call vote:

YEAS: Fisher, Griffin, Semifero, Hubbard, Arab, Michels, Schlaff, Keough

NAYS: None

ABSENT: None