(A) No person shall in any park or park street destroy, cut, break, deface, mutilate, injure, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any growing thing, including but not limited to any plant, flower, flower bed, shrub, tree, growth or any branch, stem, fruit or leaf thereof; bring into or have in his or her possession in any park or park street any garden or agricultural implements or tools, which could be used for the removal thereof; pile or maintain any material or debris of any kind against or upon the park or park street, attach any rope, cable or other contrivance thereto; set fire to any timber, tree, shrubs, plants, flowers, grass or plant growth or suffer any fire on other land to extend into park lands; hitch any horse or other animal to, or leave the horse or other animal standing near enough to injure any tree, shrub, lawn or grass plot; or go on any lawn, grass plot, or planted area, except at the times when permission to do so shall have been given by the Board of Park Commissioners to the public. No person shall bring into, or have in his or her possession in any park or park street any tree, shrub or other plant or any branch, stem, flower or leaf thereof.
(B) No stem, branch or leaf of any tree or shrub shall be cut, broken, mutilated, painted or otherwise disturbed or defaced, nor shall the root of any tree or shrub be disturbed or interfered with in any way by any person or any officer or employer of a public or private corporation, without a permit. No person shall pile or maintain against a tree or shrub any building material or other material or debris of any kind. No guy rope, cable or other contrivance shall be attached to any tree or shrub, nor shall any tree or shrub be used in connection with any banner or transparency for any business purpose whatsoever without a permit.
(C) No tree or shrub shall be planted in any street, avenue, parkway, park street or park without a permit, and all terms and conditions of the permit shall be strictly complied with.
(D) here shall be added to the Hammond City Code, a chapter entitled “Municipal Street Tree Regulations,” which is recorded as Chapter 105 of this title.
(Am. Ord. 8031, passed 12-3-1998)
(Prior Code, § 99.12) Penalty, see § 10.99