NOTICE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DECLARED PESTS

NOTICE OF RESPONSIBILITY

TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DECLARED PESTS

 

Notice is Hereby Given this 21st day of March 2023, pursuant to SDCL 38-22 as amended to all owners, occupants, agents and public officials in charge of lands in Grant County, South Dakota, that they are responsible for the suppression, control, and eradication of noxious weed and declared pest infestations that may exist on such lands.

Chemical, biological, and or cultural control methods used for the suppression, control and eradication of noxious weed and declared pest infestations shall be those approved for such purposes by the Grant County Weed and Pest Supervisor, County Agricultural Extension Educator or the South Dakota State University Experiment Station.

Upon failure to observe this notice, the County Weed and Pest Board is required to proceed pursuant to the law and have the noxious weed or declared pests destroyed by such methods as they may find necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land, and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected, or by other means as provided by law.

Plants and animals designated as being noxious weeds and declared pests in the State of South Dakota are Leafy Spurge, Absinth Wormwood,  Perennial Sow Thistle, Hoary Cress, Canada Thistle, Purple Loosestrife, Saltcedar (Tamarix ssp.), and Gypsy Moth. In addition, Musk Thistle, Plumeless Thistle, Bull Thistle, Spotted Knapweed and Common Burdock, have been approved by the State Weed and Pest Control Commission, and are also subject to the same suppression, control and eradication requirements as the before mentioned plants and animals.

Notice is Hereby Given that upon establishing probable cause to believe a noxious weed or declared pest infestation exists upon any property in Grant County, a representative of the Grant County Weed and Pest Board will enter upon said property for the purpose of inspecting and confirming that such infestation actually exists.

Nathan Mueller,

Grant County Weed Supervisor

Grant County Weed and Pest Board

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