Can’t you sneak around and do it anyway? Like in Claremont Calif you had to get PERMISSION to cut off a DEAD LIMB. Better it fall and kill a bunch of kids walking down the sidewalk to the 4th of July celebration at the park on Indian Hill.... So our gardener said he would cut them down in the middle of the night if they posed a danger!
A huge one fell on 4th July 2013 across street from our house. Fortunately it was early in the day. a couple of hours later that huge limb as big as a tree would have killed a lot of people. It was over 10ft long. big around as a horse.
not really an option