8.10 - Sign and Traffic Control Device Visibility
98.10
Section 8.10: Sign and Traffic Control Device
Visibility
Subdivision 1. Maintaining Visibility
Visibility from the street of all street signs and traffic control devices shall be main-
tained. It is a misdemeanor for any person to erect, place, plant, grow, nurture, or
maintain, any tree, shrub, vegetation, building, structure, fence, ornament, or other
object which obstructs the visibility of any street sign or traffic control device in the
sight line running from any point in or along the street within 100 feet of such sign
or traffic control device to the sign or traffic control device.
Subdivision 2. Removal Authority; Assessment of Costs
A. Generally. Upon information that any person is acting or has acted in
violation of this section, the City Engineer shall give written notice to such
person to cause the removal of any such object or vegetation creating such
violation. If such person shall then fail to remove the offending object or
vegetation within the time specified in the notice, not less than ten (10) days
from the date of notice, the City Engineer shall cause the same to be
removed and bill the cost thereof to the person responsible for the violation.
In the event such bill for costs is not paid within thirty (30) days of the
invoice date, the unpaid costs may be assessed against the affected real
property pursuant to Minn. Stat. 9 429.101.
B. Removal from Public Right-of-way. In addition to the foregoing remedies to
cause the removal of offending objects or vegetation, the City Engineer shall
also have the right to remove any object or vegetation of any type
whatsoever from any public right-of-way within the City without notice to any
person or abutting property owner whenever, in the sole judgment of the
City Engineer, any such object or vegetation constitutes a threat to the
general public health, safety, and welfare as an obstruction to the free and
safe passage of either vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and so long as any such
object or vegetation is located either wholly or in part within any dedicated
right-of-way, and no person shall be entitled to maintain any claim resulting
from the removal of the same. Any object or vegetation which lies within any
public right-of-way and which is concealed by snow, leaves, debris or other
material of any type whatsoever shall be deemed prima facie to be a
hazardous obstruction to the free and safe public passage of vehicular or
pedestrian traffic and the City shall be entitled to remove the same without
notice and without legal obligation for such removal. Following such removal,
the City may bill the costs thereof to the person responsible for the violation.
In the event such bill for costs is not paid within thirty (30) days of the
invoice date, the unpaid costs may be assessed against the affected real
property pursuant to Minn. Stat. 9 429.101.
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