[CC 1999 §15.004; Ord. No. 99-12-03 §1, 12-28-1999]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for the owner and/or occupant of any lot or parcel
of ground in the City to maintain or allow to stand upon such lot
or parcel of ground any tree or tree limb which, due to a diseased,
decayed or broken condition or for any other reason, endangers or
is likely to injure any person or property in and upon a street or
any adjacent property in the City, or to cause damage to any tree
of other land owners by the spread of a contagious disease.
B.
It shall be the duty of the owner and/or occupant of any lot or parcel of ground in the City to properly cause such trees or tree limbs as are described in Subsection (A) of this Section to be cut down and no tree or tree limb in the City which has been cut down or which has fallen or been broken down, shall be permitted to remain in or upon any sidewalk, street or adjacent property in the City, or so near thereto as to endanger any person thereon, and it shall be the duty of the owner and/or occupant of such lot or parcel of ground to cause the same to be promptly removed and it shall be unlawful for any such owner and or occupant to fail so to do.
[CC 1999 §15.005; Ord. No. 99-12-03 §1, 12-28-1999]
It shall be unlawful for the owner or caretaker of any parcel
of ground in the City to maintain or allow to stand upon such lot
or parcel of ground any building or other structure of whatever character
in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying
to the public.
[CC 1999 §15.007; Ord. No. 99-12-03 §1, 12-28-1999; Ord. No. 144, 10-24-2017]
It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for the owner and/or occupant
and the term "owner" shall include persons having the fee simple title
to any lot, his/her rental agent or the agent or trustee of such owner
who has control or management of such lot, or any lot alongside any
intersecting street or alongside any street which enters or runs into
another street to have or to permit any fence, wall, sign or signboard
or billboard to be erected nearer than thirty-five (35) feet from
the front property line or to erect such structure to a greater height
than three (3) feet above the crown of the street at the point of
intersection. Every person owning and/or occupying any such lot shall
keep all trees trimmed of limbs, branches and leaves which hang down
or obstruct the vision between a point six (6) feet above the crown
of any such street and a point three (3) feet above the crown of any
such street where such trees are located nearer than eight (8) feet
from the curb of any such street. It shall be unlawful and a nuisance
for the owner and/or occupant of any such lot to keep or maintain
any plants, flowers, shrubs, bushes, weeds or other vegetation, other
than trees, on any such lot at a point nearer than eight (8) feet
to the curb line of any street at a greater height than three (3)
feet above the crown of such street, unless the same are trimmed of
limbs, branches and leaves between a point six (6) feet above the
crown of such street and a point three (3) feet above the crown of
such street.
[CC 1999 §15.008; Ord. No. 99-12-03 §1, 12-28-1999]
In the event any obstruction to the view of any street intersection
shall be maintained in violation of this Chapter, the City, after
due notice to the owner and/or occupant to abate or remove such nuisance,
may through the proper officer enter upon such real estate and remove
any such obstructions to the view or trim any such plants, flowers,
shrubs, bushes, weeds, trees or other vegetation which do not meet
the requirements of this Chapter. The cost of such work shall be assessed
against the owner and/or occupant based upon actual costs approved
by the Board or in the manner prescribed by law.
