No owner or occupant of any property, or the agent or employee of any such owner or occupant of property, abutting upon any public street, alley or other public way within the City, shall permit the growth of any tree or shrubbery, or the existence of any tree or shrubbery, which overhangs any public street, alley or other public way at a lesser distance from the surface of such street, alley or other public way than eight feet, if such public way be a sidewalk, and fourteen feet if such public way be a street, alley or other public way.
(1965 Code §18-2)