No person shall break, injure, mutilate, kill or destroy any shade tree or set fire or permit any fire to burn where such a fire or the threat thereof will injure any shade tree, and no person shall knowingly permit any lead to exist in any gas or steam pipe or main within the root zone of any such shade tree or permit any toxic chemical, either solid or liquid, to seep, drain or be emptied on or about any such shade tree, or permit any wire designed to carry electric current to come in contact with any shade tree unless protected by a method to be approved by the Borough Council of the Borough of Marysville. No person shall attach any electric installation to any shade tree or excavate any ditches, tunnels or trenches or lay any driveway within a 10 foot radius of any shade tree without first obtaining a written permit from the Borough Council of the Borough of Marysville.
(Ord. 291, 2/3/1975, §8; as amended by Ord. 445, 7/12/1993, §2(A))