(a) No person shall install or cause to be installed along or adjacent to the boundary line of the front yard, as defined in the Zoning Code, of any lot or parcel of ground in this City, any barrier composed of one or more strands of wire, rope, cord, plastic or other type of line, stretched between stakes, poles, trees or other supports, located as described above. Provided, however, that a temporary barrier of such type, so constructed or marked as to be readily visible, may be installed to prevent damage to a newly planted lawn, hedge, shrubbery or other planting, to be maintained only for such length of time as is reasonably necessary for the protection of such planting.
(b) No person shall install or maintain any fence or barrier as described in division (a) of this section, regardless of location, which is composed in whole or in part of barbed wire or which has wire or metal spikes or prongs, or which is charged with electrical current.
(c) 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.
(Ord. C42-74. Passed 7-1-74.)