Title 7 - Health and Sanitation

7.16 Trees and Shrubs

7.16.130 Definitions.

For purposes of this Chapter the following definitions shall apply to the listed terms:

  1. E.
    Nuisance– means the doing of an act, failure to perform a legal duty, or the allowance or creation of a condition which injures, endangers, hinders or unreasonably interferes with the public health, safety or welfare in the use and enjoyment of Right-of-way or other public property by the general public. Examples include, but are not limited to, brush and limbs, Trees and Shrubs which are dead, diseased or infested which present a harmful or dangerous condition to the public, and encroachments of Trees and Shrubs in the Right-of-way or other public property which create a safety hazard.

Effective on: 1/1/1901