§ 520.040. Public Tree Care.

A. 

The City shall have the right to plant, trim, spray, preserve, and remove public trees and other vegetation growing on public land as may be necessary to ensure safety when servicing City utilities, or to preserve or enhance the overall quality of such public property. The City Tree Committee or the Board of Aldermen may remove or cause or order to be removed any tree or part thereof which is in an unsafe condition or which by reason of its nature is injurious to sewers, electric powerlines, gas lines, waterlines, or other public improvements, or is affected with any injurious disease, insect, or other pest.

B. 

It shall be unlawful to allow low hanging tree limbs to obstruct public streets and sidewalks. The Board of Aldermen has declared it necessary to control the height of tree limbs above public streets and sidewalks due to the potential danger of low hanging limbs interfering with the safe operation of trucks and other types of equipment necessary to maintain the public health and welfare. For the purposes of this Chapter, all tree limbs extending over public streets and/or sidewalks must be at least sixteen (16) feet above the level of the street or sidewalk.

R.O. 2010 §520.040; CC 1975 §1121.25; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 34 §5, 11-5-1973; Ord. No. 487 §1, 9-18-1995