No person shall prevent, delay, or interfere with the City Horticulturist or his or her assistants in the planting, pruning, cultivating, spraying, or removing of any tree, plant, or shrub that may be growing in any public way of the city or in the removing of stone, cement, or other material about the trunk of any tree that may be growing in any public way of the city.
(Prior Code, § 99.22) Penalty, see § 10.999