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)