City of Milwaukee - File #: 021223

• File #: 021223
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Placed On File
• File created: 11/26/2002
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 1/22/2003
• Title: A substitute ordinance prohibiting tree stumps projecting above finished grade when visible from the public way.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL
• Indexes: NUISANCES, TREES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
2/11/2014	2	COMMON COUNCIL	DRAFT SUBMITTED
1/22/2003	2	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	15:0
1/9/2003	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Fail	1:3
1/9/2003	2	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECONSIDERED	Pass	4:0
1/9/2003	2	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	4:0
12/30/2002	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/30/2002	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/9/2002	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/3/2002		PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
11/26/2002	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number

021223

Version

SUBSTITUTE 2

Reference

Sponsor

ALD. BOHL

Title

A substitute ordinance prohibiting tree stumps projecting above finished grade when visible from the public way.

Sections

116-53  rc

Analysis

This ordinance declares tree stumps projecting above finished grade that are also visible from the public way a public nuisance, and prohibits them.

Body

The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1.  Section 116-53 of the code is repealed and recreated to read:

116-53.  Nuisance Trees, Nuisance Stumps and Storage of Cut Elm Wood Prohibited.

1.  The planting, preserving and maintaining of trees which are injurious and detrimental to the community, and all such trees as may be liable to fall upon any sidewalk, street or building, or which are hazardous or may result in injury to person or property because of a defective or diseased condition, or contagiously diseased trees, or the storage of cut elm wood, unless debarked or treated with a proper insecticide, shall be deemed a public nuisance and are prohibited.

2.  Any tree stump projecting above finished grade and which is also visible from the public way shall be deemed a nuisance and is prohibited.

LRB

APPROVED AS TO FORM

_________________________

Legislative Reference Bureau

Date:_____________________

Attorney

IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE

IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE

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Office of the City Attorney

Date:____________________

Requestor

Drafter

LRB02614-2

jro

01/07/03