(A) Standards. The town should make reasonable efforts to maintain all trees located within town streets, parks, rights-of-way, landscape borders or on town-maintained property.
(B) Town tree planting and maintenance. The town shall have the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove street trees located within the public rights-of-way.
(C) Tree replacement. The town may replace street trees which have died or been removed for any reason, or plant additional street trees deemed appropriate and consistent with available resources.
(D) Tree topping. It shall be unlawful as a normal practice for any person or firm to top any street tree, park tree or other tree on public property excepting on easements controlled by local utility companies. Trees damaged by storms or other causes, or certain trees under utility wires or other obstructions where other pruning practices are impractical, may be exempted from this chapter at the determination of the Town Council.
(E) Town authority. The town may condemn and remove, or order to be removed, any tree or tree stump upon any of the public owned property within this town where the same is dead, diseased or for any reason whatsoever deemed undesirable or unsafe by the Tree Board.
(Ord. 71, passed 10-3-2013) Penalty, see § 10.99