No owner of any property shall place, allow or maintain any encroachment upon the sidewalk fronting or abutting on such property, such as a porch, extension, step, railing, fence or hedge or an excavation for a basement, cellar window or cellar door, unless provided with protecting grating, or place or allow any awning, sign or branch of a tree at less than a clear height of nine feet above any sidewalk. However, in the case of young trees, the branches thereof under nine feet shall be permitted to extend over the sidewalk curb line.
(Ord. 186. Passed 5-24-35.)