Sacramento Municipal Code Ch. 12.28 Obstructions to Visibility at Intersections

On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it is unlawful to install, set out, maintain or to allow the installation, setting out or maintenance of any sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other obstruction to the view, high-er than three feet six inches above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, within that triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines twenty-five (25) feet from the point of their intersection, or in the case of rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining points on such tangent twenty-five (25) feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the corner. (Prior code § 38.02.022)

This chapter shall not apply to permanent buildings, public utility poles, trees trimmed to the trunk to a line at least eight feet above the level of the intersection, saplings or plant species of open growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge which are so planted and trimmed as to leave at all seasons a clear and unobstructed crossview, supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings existing on the date this section becomes effective, official warning signs or signals, places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross-visibility at the intersection or signs mounted ten (10) feet or more above the ground and whose supports do not constitute an obstruction as defined in the preceding section.

No obstruction to cross-visibility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of this chapter because of its being in existence at the time of the adoption hereof, unless expressly exempted by the terms of this chapter. (Prior code § 38.02.023)

The enforcement of this chapter shall be under the direction of the city traffic engineer. The city traffic engineer shall investigate violations of this chapter, give such notices as may be required to carry out this chapter and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of this chapter as may be required. (Prior code § 38.02.024)

Any obstruction maintained in violation of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within twenty (20) days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance signed by the city traffic engineer, such representative of the city traffic engineer as he or she may so authorize may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruction. In such event, the cost to the city of the abatement of the nuisance shall be a lien upon the premises; provided, that a claim therefor be filed within the time and in the manner as prescribed in Section 1187 of the Civil Procedure Code of the state. The cost of such abatement shall, in addition, be a personal obligation against the owner of the premises upon which the nuisance was maintained, recoverable by the city in an action before any court of competent jurisdiction. (Prior code § 38.02.025)