Weed Superintendent


Nebraska Weed Control Act 1989

 

It is the responsibility of each person who owns or controls land within the State of Nebraska to effectively control noxious weeds on such land.  Within Wayne county, the noxious weeds are: Musk Thistles, Plumeless Thistles, Canada Thistle, Spotted Knapweed, Diffuse Knapweed, Leafy Spurge, and Purple Loosestrife.

 

Your willing cooperation in controlling these weeds not only provides an increased economic return to you as the landowner, but also greatly improves relations with adjacent landowners.  Effective control can include any on or all of the following methods: spraying, cultivation, and mowing.  Failure to take action may result in the Wayne County Weed Control Authority taking legal action to effect control.

NOXIOUS WEEDS MUST BE CONTROLLED

You are required to control noxious weeds on your property.

The noxious weeds are: Musk Thistle, Plumeless Thistle, Canada Thistle, Leafy Spurge, Knapweed (spotted and diffuse) and Purple Loosestrife.  Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Noxious Weed Control Act, section 2-955, subsection 1(a), to every person who owns or controls land in Wayne County, Nebraska, that noxious weeds being or growing on such land shall be controlled at such frequency as to prevent establishment, provide eradication, or reduce further propagation or dissemination of weeds.  Upon failure to observe this notice, the county weed superintendent is required to:

 

1.      Proceed pursuant to the law and issue legal notice to the landowner of property infested with noxious weeds giving such landowner 15 days to control the noxious weed infestation.  Conviction for noncompliance may result in a $100.00 per day fine to the landowner with a maximum fine of $1500; or

 

2.      Should more immediate control be required, proceed pursuant to the law and have the weeds controlled by such method as he/she finds necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land, and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected, or by other means as provided by law.

 

The public is also hereby notified that noxious weed seed and propagative parts may be disseminated through the movement of machinery and equipment, trucks, grain and seed, straw, nursery stock, fencing materials, sod, manure, and soil as well as articles of similar nature.  Methods of treatment have been prescribed by the Director of Agriculture and may be obtained from the county weed control authority.

 

By Order of Wayne County Control Authority

 

 

Other sites of Interest:

 

http://www.neweed.org/