(a) No owner of any tree, awning, awning frame, sign or any other obstruction shall permit the boughs or limbs of such tree to overhang any sidewalk within nine feet therefrom, measuring perpendicularly from the grade line, or permit the awning, awning frame, sign or other obstruction to overhang any sidewalk within eight feet therefrom, measuring perpendicularly from the grade line.
(b) No owner of any tree shall permit the boughs or limbs of such tree to overhang any street within fifteen feet therefrom, measuring perpendicularly from the grade line.
(c) All trees, the boughs or lines of which overhang any sidewalk or street within the distances mentioned in divisions (a) and (b) hereof, shall be trimmed at least once each year, such trimming to be done in the month of September. Nothing in this division shall be construed to prevent the owner of trees referred to in divisions (a) and (b) hereof to trim the same at any time, but if not done at least once each year, in September, such trimming shall be done as set forth in division (d) hereof.
(d) If the owner of a tree fails to trim the same after ten days written notice by the Superintendent of Public Service, then such trimming shall be done by the Superintendent and the cost assessed against the owner of such tree. This remedy shall be in addition to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(Ord. passed 8-8-2004)
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(1974 Code, § 521.11(e))