(a) There is hereby created a Carmel Urban Forestry Committee for the City.
(b) The Committee shall be composed of seven members, who shall reside in the City, and who shall be appointed by the Mayor. Committee members shall serve without compensation.
(c) The term of the seven persons appointed by the Mayor shall be three years, beginning September 1, 1994, except that the term of two members appointed to the first Committee shall be one year and the term of two members of the first Committee shall be for two years.
(d) The Committee shall designate its own officers and organize itself in a way that allows it to meet not less than once per quarter per calendar year in order to assist the City in the development and administration of a comprehensive community tree management program for the care of trees on City-owned property.
(e) The City's forester shall be an employee of the City. The forester shall have the power to promulgate and enforce rules, regulations and specifications concerning the planting, trimming, maintenance, and removal of trees, shrubs, and other plants upon the right-of-way of any street or alley in the City. Such rules, regulations and specifications shall be in writing and shall not be effective until approved by the Board of Public Works.
Copies of such regulations, rules and specifications shall be available to the public through the office of the Clerk.
(`91 Code, § 2-22) (Ord. D-1091, 8-1-94; Ord. D-1757-05, 11-7-05; Ord. D-2067-11, 11-7-11; Ord. D-2505-19, 12-16-19)