Mow your lawn... or risk jail time in Canton, Ohio

[Kat Kanning]

Mow your lawn... or risk jail time in Canton, Ohio

2 days ago

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Homeowners who don't mow their grass in the northeast Ohio city of Canton now face stiffer penalties — including possible jail time.

The city council unanimously passed a law Monday that makes a second high-grass violation a fourth-degree misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $250 and as many as 30 days in jail.

The previous law only made the first violation a minor misdemeanor, with a fine of up to $150 but no jail time. The new law is to take effect in 30 days.

"This is the type of action we need to take in order to clean up our neighborhoods and our city," Mayor William J. Healy II said.

The laws are an effort to reduce the roughly $250,000 the city spends to cut about 2,000 private lots each year and to address public complaints, Councilman Greg Hawk has said.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i62K3MWkuWP6nm_2BKKvoG0j2pQQD912IPP80

[David]

Used to live in Canton, very close to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  The city used to have 130,000 people, they now have about 80,000.  All of NE ohio is crumbling under the weight of gov't.  The NE includes cleveland and youngstown. 

[Russell Kanning]

they are "reestablishing the prairie" ... just the state governments are doing in parts of  the midwest ...
they are being environmentally sensitive and tres chic