Where any transmission or communicating line of any electric light or power company, telegraph or telephone company, or any fire alarm lines or other electrical transmission lines shall lawfully be located and placed on pole lines so that the wires pass through trees located in the parkway between the outer edge of any sidewalk and the inner edge of any street curb and by reason of the growth of the tree the wires come in contact with the trees, limbs or branches and cause radio interference as prohibited by §§ 95.015 through 95.017, the City Electrician is authorized to make an inspection of the condition and if he or she finds that the interference is caused by this condition, he or she shall serve a notice as provided in § 95.018 upon the owner, user or operator of the lines and the user, operator or owner shall within 48 hours from the receipt of the notice repair the defect. For the purpose of making the repair the City Electrician is given the right to reasonably and properly prune or trim the tree so as to remove the cause of the interference, but he or she shall not unnecessarily cut, prune, or trim the tree beyond the extent necessary to remove the interference.
(1979 Code, § 95.09) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999