[Ord. No. 2020-3; 7-14-2020]
It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for the owner, 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, of 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 (30) feet to the curb of such street
or to erect such sign or to erect such structure to a greater height
than three (3) feet above the crown of the any street at the point
of intersection. Every person owning 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 to the curbline
of any street. It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for the owner 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 curbline 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.
[Ord. No. 2020-3; 7-14-2020]
A. In
the event that any obstruction to the view of any street intersection
shall be maintained in violation of this Article, the City, after
due notice to the owner to abate or remove such nuisance, may through
the Code Enforcement 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 Article. The cost of such work shall be assessed
against the owner in the manner prescribed by law.
B. The
Chief of Police or his/her designee may without notice cause motor
vehicles to be removed.
C. Where
the existence of a motor vehicle on public property or on a street
or highway shall be an immediate hazard and thereby constitute a nuisance
requiring prompt abatement, the owner of any motor vehicle removed
under this Article, may, upon a showing of sufficient evidence of
ownership to satisfy the Chief of Police or his/her designee, and
upon payment of costs of removal and storage, be entitled to return
of said motor vehicle.