(A) Whenever the owner or owners of lots, parts of lots or parcels of land abutting on any street in the town shall have improved the unused land lying between the curb line of the street and the line of the abutting lots, parts of lots or parcels of land by creating grass plots and planting shade trees therein in accordance with the provisions § 96.01, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to trample upon, destroy, or in any manner injure the grass on the grass plot, or to cut down, destroy, deface or in any manner injure the shade trees, but nothing herein contained shall be held to prevent the owner or person in possession, charge or control of the abutting premises from entering upon the grass plot for the purpose of cutting and caring for the grass or trimming and caring for the shade trees growing thereon.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wantonly injure or cause to be injured any public or private shade tree, or any box or protection around the same, or to hitch, tie or fasten any horse, mule or other animal or animals to any shade tree or box protection around the same within the corporate limits of the town.
(Ord. 103, passed 8-6-1912)