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OBSTRUCTIONS TO CROSS-VISIBILTY AT STREET INTERSECTIONS
In order to promote and conserve the public health and safety and pursuant to the police powers of the city and the power to prevent and abate public nuisances as conferred upon the city by the General Statutes of North Carolina, it is declared to be a public nuisance for a person owning and/or having the legal control of any land within the corporate limits of the city to maintain or permit upon any such land any fence, sign, billboard, shrubbery, bush, tree, mailbox, or other object, or any combination thereof, which obstructs the view of motorists using any street or approach to any street intersection so as to constitute a traffic hazard or a condition dangerous to the public safety.
(Ord. 94-34, passed 12-5-94)
The restrictions set forth in § 40.50 shall apply to both of the following triangles of land:
(A) That triangle bounded by the curb edges (or edges of pavement where there is no curb), measured along the curb edge (or edge of pavement where there is no curb) 50 feet from the midpoint of the radius of the curb edge (or edge of pavement where there is no curb) in each direction and the diagonal line connecting the further ends of such 50-foot lengths; and
(B) That triangle bounded by the right-of-way lines measured 35 feet from the point of their intersection in each direction and the diagonal line connecting the further ends of such 35- foot lengths.
(Ord. 94-34, passed 12-5-94)
Within the triangles described in § 40.51, and except as provided in § 40.53, it shall be unlawful to install, set out, or maintain, or allow the installation, setting out, or maintenance of, any sign, hedge, shrubbery, tree, natural growth, earthen berm, or object of any kind which obstructs cross-visibility at a level between 30 inches and 72 inches above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection. A violation of this section is punishable as a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 94-34, passed 12-5-94; Am. Ord. 22-01, passed 1-3-22) Penalty, see § 10.99
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