Landowner	Control Authority
County Board	County Attorney
Attorney General	County Weed Superintendent
Director of Agriculture	Noxious Weed Advisory Committee

In 1989, the Nebraska Legislature approved amendments to the Nebraska Noxious Weed Control Act with the passage of LB 49. The revisions made to the Noxious Weed Control Act went into effect on November 1, 1989. The Noxious Weed Control Act defines and places specific responsibilities for noxious weed control on landowners, individual counties, and the State of Nebraska.

Landowner:
It is the duty of each person who owns or controls land to effectively control noxious weeds on such land.

County Board:
The Noxious Weed Control Act defines county board as being a board of commissioners or supervisors.

The duties of the county board, as stated in the Noxious Weed Control Act, include:

• Employing one or more weed control superintendents.

• Establishing a tax levy each year for the purpose of paying the expenses authorized to be paid from the noxious weed control fund.

• Providing for a hearing for any person who is dissatisfied with the amount of any charge made against him or her by a control authority for control work performed.

Control Authority:
The Noxious Weed Control Act defines control authority as being the county weed district board or the county board of commissioners or supervisors. The Noxious Weed Control Act establishes a procedure for the voters of each county to determine if they want the Noxious Weed Control Act to be administered by the county board or by an independently elected body, referred to as the county weed district board.

Duties of the control authority include:

• Administering the Noxious Weed Control Act at the county level.

• Establishing a coordinated program for control of noxious weeds within the county.

• Providing for a public hearing for any landowner who has been served an individual notice who questions the existence of an uncontrolled noxious weed infestation on such landowner's property.

• Causing proper control methods to be used on noxious weed-infested land when the landowner fails to control such noxious weeds.

• Issuing individual notices to landowners.

• Notifying the county attorney when the landowner fails to take action on controlling the noxious weeds on the specified property.

• Causing notice to be filed with the register of deeds of possible unpaid weed control assessments against the property upon which control measures were used.

County Weed Superintendent:
The county weed superintendent duties include:

• Being certified, in writing, by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture as a commercial applicator.

• Examining all lands under the jurisdiction of the control authority to determine if the Noxious Weed Control Act and the rules and regulations are being complied with.

• Compiling infestation data and other reports as the Director of Agriculture or control authority may require.

• Supervising and carrying out the coordinated control program within the county.

• Completing 20 hours of continuing education, annually.

• Ascertaining and tabulating the approximate amount and location of land infested with noxious weeds in the county, annually.

• Ascertaining and preparing information required by the county board for preparation of the county budget.