Any tree or shrub or part thereof growing upon private property but overhanging or interfering with the public use of any public street or way in the City, or which in the opinion of the Commissioner of Parks, Forestry and Open Space Planning endangers the life, health, safety, comfort, or property of the public, because of its location, condition of its limbs, roots or trunk, or because of its diseased condition, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. The owner of any such tree, or the receipt of written notice from such Commissioner, or if such owner be a nonresident of the City on publication of notice in a daily newspaper of general circulation within the City, shall, within the time stated in such notice, remove such tree, or shrub, or correct the condition stated in such notice. Should such owner after such service or publication and the lapse of time therein stated fail, refuse or neglect to remove such tree or correct such condition thereof, the Commissioner of Parks, Forestry and Open Space Planning shall cause such work to be done as may be required for the preservation and protection of the life, health, comfort and property of the public, and the cost of such work shall be assessed against the property on which the work is done.
(Ord. 14-95. Passed 1-10-95.)