[CC 1983 §76.800]
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 along side 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 street 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 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 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 1983 §76.810]
In the event 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 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 Article. The cost of such work shall be assessed against the
owner in the manner prescribed by law.
[CC 1983 §76.820; Ord. No. 98-43, 11-5-1998]
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 Director of Public Safety or his designee,
and upon payment of costs of removal and storage, be entitled to return
of said motor vehicle.
