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• • AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REORDAIN SECTION OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, RELATING TO UNTRIMMED WEEDS 23-7 OF THE CODE 1976, AS AMENDED, OR VEGETATION. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that Section 23-7 of Article III of Chapter 23 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1976, as amended, is hereby amended and reordained as follows: ARTICLE III. WEEDS, SHRUBBERY, TREES AND NOXIOUS VEGETATION. Sec. 23-7. Unlawful conditions of weeds, shrubbery, trees and other vegetation generally. (a) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any lot or parcel of land within the city to permit to remain thereon, within one hundred fifty feet of an occupied building, any weeds, brush or other uncultivated and untrimmed vegetation in excess of eighteen inches in height. It shall further be unlawful for the owner of any lot or parcel of land to permit to grow or remain thereon any hedge, shrub, tree or other vegetation, the limbs, branches or other parts of which overhang, extend or protrude into any street, sidewalk or public alley in a manner which obstructs or impedes the safe and orderly movement of persons or vehicles thereon, or in the case of trees, when the dead limbs or branches thereof are likely to fall into or across such street or sidewalk thereby endangering such person and vehicles. Upon removal of any such unlawful condition, the owner shall dispose of such vegetation in such a manner as to eliminate any potential fire hazard. (b) Whenever the city manager, or the official designated by him or her, determines any of such unlawful conditions to exist, he or she shall notify the property owner of record of such determination by certified first class mail;--retxrrr--re�ipt reelciesteel sent to the address listed in the real estate tax records, requiring such property owner to correct the condition. An affidavit shall be prepared evidencing such mailing_ If the condition is not corrected within ten days after receipt mailing of such notice, er-after-tile-pest-effiee-has-returned-such-netiee ets-+snr3$i�i� the city manager or his or her designee may order such condition to be cleared or corrected, either by city forces or by a private contractor. The cost thereof, together with an administrative handling charge of fifteen dollars, shall be billed to the property owner and if not paid shall be added to and collected in the same manner as the real estate tax on such property. Approved by Council %t October 2, 1989 7 r of Council 89-7-36