"miamicuse" wrote in message
All three trees are on the side of the County's street and outside of my
property line. I was told I am responsible to maintain these trees even
though they are not mine technically.

A couple of points. First, the responsibility *may* be yours. Is it really
on the County property, or only in the right-of-way (which means it's really
your property that the county gets to use for public thorofare)? In the
case of public sidewalks, for example, many municipalities require the
homeowner to maintain the public sidewalk in front of their residence. Your
trees may be falling into that same situation.

Secondly, if the trees are a safety hazard, depending on whose
responsibility they actually are, that can be good or bad for you. If they
fall and cause damage or injury, now we're talking negligence because you
(or they) are aware of the problem and failed to rectify it. If you
determine that it's the county's problem, you might want to stress that
point in your conversations with them. If they're your trees after all, I'd
do one of two things. Either bite the bullet & take them down or two, wait
for a good hurricane to knock them down. If the latter, the insurance
company will pay for the removal.

JF