A. The ordinance codified in this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “weeds and vegetation ordinance” of the city of Algona. The general purpose of the ordinance is to exercise the city’s police power for the benefit of the public health, safety and welfare, to provide enforcement mechanisms and the abatement and collection of abatement expenses by the city, and, to these ends, the ordinance shall be liberally construed.

B. This chapter shall be enforced for the benefit of the health, safety and welfare of the general public, not for the benefit of any particular person or class of persons.

C. It is the intent of this chapter to place the obligation of complying with its requirements upon the owner or occupier of the land and buildings within the scope of this chapter. No provision or term used in this chapter is intended to impose any duty upon the city or any of its officers, officials, and employees which would subject them to damages in a civil action. (Ord. 832 § 1, 1997).