§ 36-36. Encroachments on streets.  


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  • The chief of police shall notify any person about to erect any building, sidewalk, wall, or fence near the street or any public way or alley not to encroach upon the street or public alley; and, if in the opinion of the mayor, any obstruction is being or has been constructed on any street or public alley, the mayor shall cause a survey of the line of the street or alley to be made by a competent surveyor. If the survey shall show that the street or alley is obstructed by any building, sidewalk, wall, or fence, the owner shall be required to pay the costs of the survey and shall be required to remove all obstructions at once. Every person who shall be found to have encroached on any street or public way or alley by an such building, sidewalk, wall, or fence and who refuses or neglects to remove the same upon notice from the chief of police within ten days from the date thereof shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 2004, § 22.6)