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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 5-703 Destroying noxious weeds, etc., required.">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-703" heading="Destroying noxious weeds, etc., required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Every person in charge of any land must keep that land free from ragweeds, wild mustard, wild lettuce, wild parsley, common thistle, milkweed, poison ivy, and all other noxious weeds.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Permitted methods.">The person in charge must destroy any noxious weeds on the land by:<para num="(1)">spraying with a chemical compound approved by and applied in accordance with the requirements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency;</para>
      <para num="(2)">cutting and removal;</para>
      <para num="(3)">digging under; or</para>
      <para num="(4)">any other method that the Commissioner approves.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §161(2nd cl.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
