Wabasha County GENERAL NOTICE TO CONTROL OR ERADICATE NOXIOUS WEEDS

GENERAL NOTICE
TO CONTROL OR ERADICATE
NOXIOUS WEEDS

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Chapter 18.83, Subdivision 1 Minnesota Statutes, that all persons in Wabasha County, Minnesota shall control or eradicate all noxious weeds on land they own, occupy or are required to maintain. Control or eradication may be accomplished by any lawful method but the methods may need to be repeated in order to prevent the spread of viable noxious weed seeds and other propagating parts to other lands.  Failure to comply with the general notice may mean that an individual notice will be issued. The recipient of the individual notice may have 5 working days to become compliant or two working days to file an appeal in writing to the Appeal Board. Failure to comply with the individual notice will mean that the County Designated Employee having jurisdiction may either hire the work done or seek a misdemeanor charge against the person(s) who failed to comply. If the work is hired or done by the County Designated Employee, the cost can be placed as a tax upon the land and collected as other real estate taxes are collected. The statewide noxious weed species on the eradicate or control list are: Black swallow-wort, Brown knapweed, Common teasel, Cutleaf teasel, Dalmatian toadflax, Diffuse knapweed, Giant Hogweed, Grecian foxglove, Japanese honeysuckle, Japanese hops, Johnsongrass, Pale swallow-wort, Palmer amaranth, Red hailstone, Tree of heaven, Yellow starthistle, Bohemian knotweed, Canada thistle, Common barberry, Common tansy, Giant knotweed, Japanese knotweed, Leafy spurge, Meadow knapweed, Narrowleaf bittercress, Non-native phragmites, Plumeless thistle, Poison hemlock, Purple loosestrife, Round leaf bittersweet, Spotted knapweed, and Wild parsnip. You may obtain a list of Noxious Weeds including Restricted and Specially Regulated plants from your County Designated Employee, from your Local Weed Inspectors or from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s website: https://www.mda.state.mn.us/plants-insects/minnesota-noxious-weed-list.