(a) No person shall plant, remove, destroy, cut, prune, fertilize, treat, break, climb, injure or spray any tree existing on any public place in the City or authorize or procure any person to do so, or remove or tamper with any device placed for the protection of any such tree, or attach any rope, wire, chain, sign or other device whatsoever either to any tree or to any device placed for the protection of such tree, or authorize or cause the same to be done, except after having first obtained written permission from the Director to do so.
(b) Such permit, when granted for the planting of any tree to be located on any public place in the City, shall designate the species of tree to be planted, the required spacing and required minimum planting size, as specified in the Master Street Tree Plan for the City, as such Plan now exists or as it may be amended from time to time.
(1980 Code 94.16)