In the interest of protecting the health and safety of the population of DeBeque through the control and elimination of weeds, refuse, brush, rubbish, nauseous or contagious substances, inflammable or explosive refuse, hazardous materials, abandoned ice boxes and refrigerators, and junk where ever found within the incorporated limits of the Town. Ordinance Number 196 (1993) of the Town of DeBeque, Colorado makes it the responsibility and duty of all residents, lessors and owners of property or their agents to cut and to keep cut the weeds and brush and to remove the same, together with any refuse, from their property and from the streets and alleys and default of such cutting and removal the work of cutting/removing the same shall be done under the orders of the town trustees and the costs thereof shall be assessed to the respective lots, tracts or parcels of land.
