§ 13-57. Obstructions to intersections; removal; failure to remove, etc.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for owners, tenants or occupants of property contiguous or adjacent to intersections of streets to permit or maintain on such property or lot any trees, bushes, shrubbery or other plant or any sign or structure which obstructs the view of the operators or motor vehicles or which creates a dangerous or hazardous conditions.

(b)

This section shall not be applicable to intersections in which traffic is controlled by a traffic control signal exhibiting green, yellow and red signals.

(c)

The owners, tenants or occupants of such property shall, within ten (10) days after receiving written notice from the clerk or other duly authorized agent of the city, remove such trees, bushes, shrubbery or other plant or sign or structure of any type as referred to in subsection (a) so that the vision of persons operating motor vehicles entering intersections of streets will not be obscured or obstructed thereby, and so that the approach of other vehicles may be readily observed.

(d)

Upon the failure of the owner, tenant or occupant to comply with the notice of the clerk or other duly authorized agent of the city within ten (10) days under the provisions of subsection (c) or when such property is vacant and the owner cannot be found in the city, the clerk shall cause such weeds, hedges, shrubs or other vegetation to be cut or removed so that they will not obscure or obstruct the vision of persons operating motor vehicles entering such intersections, and will not prevent the ready observation of the approach of other vehicles; and shall report the cost thereof to the collector of city taxes, who shall add the same to the taxes assessed on such property for the next ensuring year; and the same shall become a part thereof and shall be collected in the same manner prescribed by law for the collection of taxes.

(e)

Any owner, tenant or occupant of property who shall fail or refuse to remove or cut weeds, hedges, shrubs or other vegetation therefrom, after receiving notice from the city clerk or other duly authorized agent of the city, and within the time prescribed in subsection (d), shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. of. 9-21-92, § 7)