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It shall be the duty of the park board either directly or through the city forester to encourage the planting of trees within the city and to recommend the kind and character of trees to be planted which are suitable to the soil and will furnish the most practical results with a view of yielding shade and being ornamental in their nature. The city forester shall be courteous and attentive to the public in seeking advice and in aiding and assisting the public as well as encouraging the public in the planting of the proper kind of trees. No member of the park board nor the city forester shall be interested directly or indirectly in a pecuniary manner in selling or marketing any shade trees required to be used by the public but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the park board or the city forester from giving proper advice as to the kind and character of trees to be planted and the time when such planting shall be done and all other information that may be necessary for such purposes. (Code 1941, Art. 147-3; Ord. 8020)
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant or set out any shade trees or cause or authorize any person to plant or set out any shade trees in or on any public highway within the city without first obtaining from the director of the park department a written permit to do so. It shall be unlawful for any individual or officer or employee of a corporation without the written permit of director of the park department to cut, prune, break, climb, injure or remove any living tree in a public highway, or cut, disturb or interfere in any way with the roots of any tree on a public highway or spray with any chemicals or insecticides any tree in a public highway; or place any rope, sign, poster or other fixture on a tree or guard in a public highway; or injure, misuse or remove any device placed to protect such tree on a public highway. (Code 1941, Art. 147-4)
It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully prevent, delay or in any manner interfere with the park board or any person acting under its direction and instruction in the planting, pruning, spraying, cultivating, caring for or removal of any living tree standing in any street or public highway in the city. (Code 1941, Art. 147-7)
Every person having any wire or wires charged with electricity running through a public highway shall temporarily remove any such wire or wires or the electricity therefrom when it shall be necessary, in order to take down or prune any trees growing in a public highway, within 48 hours after service upon the owner of such wires, or his agent, of a written notice signed by the director of the park department, to remove the wire or wires or the electricity therefrom. (Code 1941, Art. 147-9)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, injure, mutilate or destroy any shrub, plant or tree in the city, in or upon property not belonging to such person, without the permission of the owner of the property.
(b) Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of an offense. (Code 1941, Art. 87-3; Ord. 19963)
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