557.01 Certain trees and shrubs declared nuisances.
557.02 Removal of nuisance; notice.
557.03 Failure to comply; charges.
557.04 Planting trees or shrubs; permit required.
557.05 Notice to cut and destroy weeds.
557.06 Service of notice.
557.08 Charges.
557.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Notice to cut noxious weeds - see Ohio R.C. 731.51
Destruction of weeds - see Ohio R.C. 971.33 et seq.
Injuring vines, bushes, trees or crops - see GEN. OFF. 541.06
Any tree or shrub or part thereof growing upon private property but overhanging or interfering with public utilities or the public use of any public street, way or alley or interfering with the vision of drivers of motor vehicles using any public way, in the City, or which, in the opinion of the Director of Public Service-Safety, endangers the life, health, safety, comfort or property of the public, because of its location, the condition of its limbs, trunk or roots or because of its diseased condition, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(a) No owner of any such tree or shrub, on receipt of written notice from the Director of Public Service-Safety or, if such owner is a nonresident of the City and his address unknown, on publication of notice in a daily newspaper of general circulation within the City, shall, within the time stated in such notice, fail to remove such tree or shrub or correct the condition stated in such notice.
(Ord. 892. Passed 10-10-55.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
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