Definitions.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 35-61
in effect§ 35-61. - Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) Director means the Director of Neighborhood Enhancement or his designated representative.
(2) Noxious plants means poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac, at any height or stage of maturity.
(3) Owner means the owner of record as shown by the current year's tax rolls in the county treasurer's office and/or any person, firm, or corporation having a legal or equitable interest in the property, including an officer, guardian, executor, administrator, mortgagee in possession, managing or leasing agent of such person, firm, or corporation.
(4) Rank weeds means all vegetation at any state of maturity which:
a. exceeds 12 inches in height, except healthy trees, shrubs, or produce for human consumption grown in a tended and cultivated garden unless such trees and shrubbery, by their density or location, constitute a detriment to the health, benefit and welfare of the public and community or a hazard to traffic or create a fire hazard to the property or otherwise interfere with the mowing of said weeds;
b. regardless of height, harbors, conceals, or invites deposits or accumulation of refuse or trash;
c. harbors rodents or vermin;
d. gives off unpleasant or noxious odors;
e. constitutes a fire or traffic hazard; or
f. is dead or diseased.
"Rank weeds" does not include tended crops on land zoned for agricultural use which are planted more than 150 feet from a parcel zoned for other than agricultural use.
(5) Thickets means dense growths of wild shrubbery having stems or trunks less than one inch in diameter, and briar patches.
(Code 1970, § 21-81; Code 1980, § 35-61; Ord. No. 18624, § 1, 11-4-86; Ord. No. 18690, § 1, 2-17-87; Ord. No. 19483, § 1, 10-23-90; Ord. No. 20871, § 5, 7-29-97)
Source: City of Oklahoma City, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/oklahoma_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=OKMUCO2020_CH35NU_ARTIIIWENOPL_S35-61DEFetched: 10/28/2026