(A) Any person desiring for any lawful purpose to fertilize, remove, destroy, cut, severely prune (including the root system), treat with a view to its preservation from disease or insects or otherwise disturb any tree or shrub in or upon any public right-of-way, public area or open city-owned off-street parking area shall first obtain a written permit, hereinafter provided for, on forms furnished by the City Arborist. Any work performed under the permit must be done in strict accordance with the conditions of the permit and the arboricultural specifications and standards of practice adopted by the City Arborist.
(B) Any person desiring to plant a tree or shrubbery upon any public right-of-way or public area or open off-street parking area owned or operated by the city shall obtain a permit from the City Arborist.
(C) (1) When a permit is given by the City Arborist to a telephone, telegraph, electric power, natural gas or other public service corporation or utility to trim or perform other operations affecting trees on public areas and rights-of-way and open off-street parking areas, pursuant to this article, the amount of such trimming or extent of other operations shall be limited by the actual necessities of the service of the company or utility, as determined by consultation with the City Arborist; and the work shall be done in a neat and workmanlike manner and according to the specifications of the City Arborist.
(2) A public utility may obtain a master permit for continual work for a period of no longer than one year from the date of issuance. Applications for a master permit shall include a description of the treatment, excavation, trenching or maintenance to be carried out, the composition of any chemical used as treatment, and any other such information that describes the work or is requested by the City Arborist.
(D) All applications for permits must be made to the City Arborist not less than five days prior to the time the work is to begin.
(Ord. No. 05-40, passed 4-14-2005)