§ 58-31. Vegetation or structures obstructing vision of drivers at intersections.

(a)

The owner or occupant of private real property shall not permit the growth of shrubbery above the height of 30 inches, nor shall tree branches be permitted below the height of ten feet measured from the base of the shrub or tree, and no fence, wall, hedge or other structure shall be erected or placed, which will obstruct, from a legal stop position at a traffic intersection on a stop street or alley or any street which may hereafter be changed to a stop street, a driver's view of approaching traffic on a through street 250 feet in each direction.

(b)

Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to utility poles and existing trees existing as of the date of enactment of the ordinance from which this section is derived with a trunk diameter of four inches or more.

(Code 1961, § 17-7.1; Code 1985, § 21-3)

Cross reference

Traffic and vehicles, ch. 66; trees, landscaping and other vegetation, ch. 118.