§ 64-417. Unsafe trees or branches.

(a)

Prohibited. No person, either as owner or tenant of real estate on which there are trees, shall permit any tree or branch thereof situated on such real estate to overhang a public street or adjoining property where such tree or branch so overhanging is liable to fall and do injury to the traveling public or adjoining property by reason of its insecure and unsafe condition, whether occasioned by decay or any other cause, and the maintenance of such unsafe tree or branch is declared to be a nuisance.

(b)

Removal by city. In case the owner or tenant shall fail to remove such unsafe tree or branch, as described in this section, which threatens injury to the public or adjoining property, the commissioner of streets is hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon private property to remove the unsafe tree or branch at the expense of the owner, which expense may be recovered by the city in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 30.166)