905.03 TREE TRIMMING REQUIRED.

   (a)   Trees Overhanging the Right-of-Way. The owner or agent of the owner of any lot or parcel of land fronting or abutting on any street or public ground in the City shall trim or cause to be trimmed all trees growing on or in the front or side of such premises, where branches of trees overhang any portion of the street or public ground, or overhang any portion of the sidewalk, so as not to obstruct the passage of light from any street lamp near such trees, and shall trim all branches overhanging any sidewalk or roadway so as to have a clear height of fifteen (15) feet above the surface of the sidewalk or roadway unobstructed by branches, and shall remove from such trees all dead, decaying and broken limbs or branches that overhang the sidewalk or street, or that are liable to fall thereon. When any of the trees are dead, the owner or agent of the owner shall take up or cause to be taken up such dead trees and remove the same from such lot or parcel of land.

   (b)   Trees within the Right-of-Way. When engaged in commercial activity within the City right-of-way or upon public ground, no person, firm, corporation, public utility or other entity shall, without first obtaining a permit from the City Division of Engineering, cut, remove, destroy, trim or in any other way interfere with any trees, bushes or other natural plantings within the City right-of-way or upon public property. Any such activity undertaken pursuant to the issuance of such permit shall comply with the current edition of the City's Urban Forestry Manual, as approved from time-to-time by the City's Urban Forestry Commission

(Ord. 2017-20. Passed 5-15-17.)