(A) Material.
(1) Materials used for construction of all fences or walls shall be subject to approval by the Building Commissioner. The following types of fences may be erected except where prohibited elsewhere in this chapter: split rail; board-onboard; shadow box; basket weave; picket, stockade; lattice; combination board and lattice or picket; post and rail (horizontal board); vertical board; solid panel board; wrought iron; and extruded aluminum profiles (powder coated).
(2) If a fence is constructed of boards, pickets, wire, or other material applied to rails or posts, the rails or posts shall be on the owner's side and the applied material on the neighbor's side, unless the fence is so constructed as to provide finished surface on each side such as staggered vertical boards on each side of horizontal rails.
(3) It shall be unlawful to construct or erect a fence made of the following materials:
(a) Barbed wire on or as a part of fence or walls in a residential district or business district;
(b) Electrified wiring on or as a part of fences or walls in a residential district or business district (except where part of an invisible fence system);
(c) Picket fences having pickets connected by wire, that is, so-called snow fences, in a residential district or business district; and
(d) Wire fences, including chain link, in any residential district.
(4) Barbed wire may be used in the industrial district if on top of a fence or wall having a height of at least eight feet.
(5) Electrically supervised fence may be used in the industrial district consisting of single wire at the top of a fence set back into the owner's property at least nine inches from the fence line; voltage in the line shall not exceed 24 volts; the line shall be insulated from the remainder of the fence; and the entire installation shall be approved by the Inspection Bureau, Inc.
(6) It shall be unlawful to plant, trim, or otherwise maintain hedging that is in excess of three feet in height within 25 feet of the intersection of two or more streets.
(7) All fences shall be placed entirely on the property owner's lot. No setback is required for fencing in any yard, except for fences that parallel a public right of way or invisible fences.
(8) The maximum permitted height of fences constructed on top of a wall shall be measured from the grade line of the abutting property.
(B) Fence support structure. All fences must be secured with below ground posts except wire fencing used as a liner for a permitted fence.
(2000 Code, § 151.104) (Ord. O-4-96, passed 3-25-1996; Ord. O-12-06, passed 12-26-2006; Ord. O-14-22, passed 5-23-2022) Penalty, see § 151.999