(A) Prohibited obstructions.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or encumber, by fences, gates, buildings, structures or otherwise, any of the streets, alleys or sidewalks.
(2) The public ways and property shall be considered to be obstructed when the owner or occupant of the adjacent property permits or suffers to remain on any premises owned or controlled by him or her any hedge, shrubbery, bush or similar growth within two feet adjacent to the lot line, whether there is a sidewalk abutting or adjoining the premises or not. It shall be the duty of owners and occupants to at all times keep trimmed and pruned all such similar growth.
(3) Trees and shrubs growing upon the lot line partially on public ground and partially upon the abutting property, or wholly upon the abutting property, and interfering with the use, making, or construction of any public improvement or so that the roots thereof interfere with any utility wire or pipe shall be deemed an obstruction. Such trees and shrubs and their roots may be removed by the village at the expense of the owner of the property upon which the trees or shrubs are partially or wholly located if the owner fails or neglects, after notice, to do so.
(4) When any obstruction described in this section is determined to exist, the village may proceed against the owner or occupant of the property adjacent to the sidewalk space as provided herein.
(1995 Code, § 8-104)
(B) Regulation of obstructions.
(1) The village shall have the power to remove all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters and crosswalks at the expense of the person placing them there or at the expense of the village and to require and regulate the planting and protection of shade trees in and along the streets and the trimming and removing of such trees.
(2) The village shall have the power to regulate the building of bulkheads, cellar and basement ways, stairways, railways, windows, doorways, awnings, hitching posts and rails, lampposts, awning posts, all other structures projecting upon or over and adjoining and all other excavations through and under the sidewalks in the village.
(Neb. RS 17-555)
(1995 Code, § 8-105) Penalty, see § 10.99