(a) Unless specifically authorized by the Administrator, no person shall intentionally damage, climb, cut, carve, top, transplant or remove any public tree or shrub; attach any advertising posters, squirrel feeder, bird feeder, or other contrivance either to any public tree, shrub, or to any device placed for the protection of such tree or shrub, allow any gaseous, liquid or solid substance to come in contact with public tree(s) or shrub(s), set fire or permit a fire to burn in an area when the fire or heat thereof shall injure any portion of any public tree or shrub.
(b) No person shall excavate any ditches, tunnels, trenches, alley or drive, within a radius of ten feet from any public tree or shrub without obtaining approval from the Administrator.
(c) No person in charge of or responsible for the erection, alteration, or removal of any building or structure, the widening of streets or highways, or the excavation or installation of utilities in the Village shall permit any tree upon any public place in the vicinity of such operations to stand without a good and sufficient guard or protection as shall prevent‘injury, damage, or defacement to such tree arising out of, in connection with, or by reason of such operations. The quality of the guard or protection shall be determined by the Administrator.
(Ord. 2008-7. Passed 10-20-08.)