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No person, firm or corporation owning or using, or having control or charge of gas or other substance deleterious to tree life, shall allow such gas or other substance to come into contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree in any public highway in the City in such manner as may injure such tree or plant.
No person, firm or corporation owning or using, or having control or charge of gas or other substance deleterious to tree life, shall allow such gas or other substance to come into contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree in any public highway in the City in such manner as shall kill or destroy such tree or plant.
No person, firm or corporation shall cause, authorize or procure any brine water, oil, liquid dye or other substance deleterious to tree life to lie, leak, pour, flow or drip on or into the soil about the base of any tree in any public highway in the City, or onto the sidewalk, road or pavement therein at a point whence such substance may be lying on, or by flowing, dripping or seeping into such soil, or in any other manner whatever, injure such tree; or cause or procure such lying, leaking, flowing, dripping, seeping or injuring.
No person, firm or corporation, except with the written permit of the Director of Public Properties, shall place or maintain upon the ground in any public highway within the City, any stone, cement or other material or substance in such manner as may obstruct the free access of air and water to the roots of any tree or ornamental plant in such highway. Unless otherwise provided for in such written permit, there must be maintained about the base of the trunk of each shade tree in the public highways of the City at least six (6) square feet of open ground for a tree three (3) inches in diameter, and for every two (2) inches of increase of such diameter there must be an increase of at least one (1) square foot of open ground.
The Director of Public Properties shall have the right to plant, trim, preserve and remove all trees within the lines of all streets, alleys, avenues, lands, lanes, squares and public grounds as may be necessary to insure safety, or to preserve the symmetry and beauty of such public grounds. The Director, under the power given herein, may cause any tree which is in an unsafe condition, or which by reason of its nature is injurious to sewers or other improvements, or is affected by any injurious scale or other pest, to be removed.
No person, firm or corporation shall interfere, cause, authorize or procure any interference with the Director of Public Properties, or any of his or her employees, agents or servants, while they are engaged in and about the planting, cultivating, mulching, pruning, spraying or removing of any tree in any public highway within the City, or in removing any device attached to a tree or in such removing of stone, cement, sidewalk or other material or substance as may be necessary for the protection and care of any such tree in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 509.06, as to the area of open ground to be maintained about the base of the trunk of each shade tree in the public highways of the City.
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