(A) Prohibited. On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful to install, set out, or maintain or to allow the installation, setting out, or maintenance of any sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth, or other obstruction to the view, within that triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines 15 feet the point of their intersection, or in the case of rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining points on the tangent 15 feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the corner.
(B) Exemptions. The foregoing provision of division (A) of this section shall not apply to permanent buildings; public utility poles; supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings existing on February 13, 1980; official warning signs or signals; places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross-visibility at the intersection; or signs mounted ten feet or more above the ground and whose supports do not constitute an obstruction as defined in division (A) of this section.
(C) Enforcement. The enforcement of this section shall be under the direction of the Chief of Police, who shall investigate violations of this section, give such notices as may be required to carry out this section and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of this section as may be required.
(D) Removal. Any obstruction maintained in violation of this section shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within 20 days after the posting upon the premises of a notice to abate the nuisance signed by the Chief of Police, such representative of the Chief of Police as he may so authorize may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruction. The Chief of Police shall have power to declare what shall constitute a nuisance, to prevent the same, require its abatement, authorize the removal of the same by the proper officers, and provide for the punishment of the person causing or suffering the same, to assess the expenses of its removal against such person, and to provide for collecting such expenses either by causing them to be placed on the tax duplicate or by suit.
(E) Scope of section. No obstruction to cross-visibility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of this section because of its being in existence on February 13, 1980, unless expressly exempted by the terms of this section.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99