Any public service company, municipality or quasi-municipal utility having knowledge of trees, plants, shrubs or vegetation which interfere with, endanger or threaten to interfere with or endanger overhead wires, lights or equipment or underground conduits, pipes, sewers or drains within the public right-of-way and desiring authority to trim or remove the same after failure or refusal of the owner to do so shall report such dangerous or threatening condition to the superintendent of streets, on forms provided therefor, and may make application for authority to trim and remove such trees, plants, shrubs or vegetation. The superintendent of streets, if he deems the condition described in the applicant’s report to constitute a nuisance, shall give notice to the property owner as provided in BCC 14.06.030, and cause the application and a copy of the notice to be presented to the city council at its next public meeting. At said meeting, the city council may order further investigation and report on the facts, may hear the property owner and may adopt a resolution requiring the property owner to abate the nuisance within the time specified in the resolution or order the abatement of the nuisance by city employees at the property owner’s cost and expense or may provide that the utility or public service company making application therefor shall have authority to trim and remove such plants, trees, shrubs and vegetation to such extent as is reasonable and necessary to abate the nuisance and to eliminate the danger to the utilities, wires, pipes, conduits, sewers and drains or to preserve the public health, safety and welfare. (1961 code § 10.20.070.)