It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, construct or maintain on any lot or
parcel zoned or in a single-family, two-family or multiple-residential district of
the village any wood, stone, brick, masonry, iron, chain, line, wire or other type
of fence between the street and the building line, as defined to be the area between
the public right-of-way and the nearest line of the building. All legally authorized
fences in the single-family, two-family or multiple-residential districts of the village
shall not exceed a height of six feet; except where the property line abuts upon a
four-lane highway, railroad right-of-way, commercial or industrial area or municipal
property, a fence shall not exceed a height of seven feet. This section shall apply
only to fences erected or constructed after the effective date of the ordinance from
which this section derives and to any fence that preexisted such effective date which
has fallen in to such disrepair that, in the sole opinion of the building inspector,
it is unsafe, dangerous or unsightly.
