Cross Reference — As to ice and snow removal along Main Street, §505.085.
[Ord. No. 780 §1, 6-4-1991]
Unless the contents specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
ALLEY
A narrow way designated for the special accommodation of the property it reaches.
BUSH
A plant with branches springing from a center location on which leaves, needles or flowers grow at various times of the year, which has dense growth from the ground to its top.
SIDEWALK
That part of a public street or highway or right of way or persons yard designated or designed for the use of pedestrians or bicycle traffic.
STREET
An urbanway or thoroughfare or road or publicway whether paved or not whose intended purpose is for the carrying of vehicular traffic of the general public, not to include service entrances or driveways leading from the street to the adjoining premises.
TREE
A woody plant the branches of which spring from and are supported upon a trunk or body.
[Ord. No. 780 §1, 6-4-1991]
Any landowner or tenant or both who resides on or owns a tract of property from which there are growing trees or bushes, which obstruct the passage along any sidewalk or street or hang lower than eight (8) feet above any sidewalk or lower than twelve (12) feet above any alley or street, or from which there is an imminent danger of falling any broken or dead portions of the stems, branches or trunks so as to endanger or obstruct any person or vehicle traveling upon said sidewalk, street or alley, shall have the obligation of trimming said bushes or trees to conform with the provisions of this Chapter and removing any dead or broken pieces of the stems, branches or trunk from said trees so as not to endanger other people, their property or obstruct the street, sidewalk or alley.
[Ord. No. 780 §1, 6-4-1991]
Any person owning an interest in or the tenant of any property abutting upon a right of way or parkway between their property and a dedicated street of the City of Rock Port, shall be responsible for tending all bushes or trees growing in that area between their property and the City streets so that said bushes or trees conform with the requirements of Section 226.020.
[Ord. No. 780 §1, 6-4-1991]
Any violation of this Chapter shall be punishable as a misdemeanor under the laws of the City of Rock Port by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor greater than five hundred dollars ($500.00).