It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, or entity to cut, bruise or injure or cut down or cut off any branch, or in any way deface, injure or destroy any shade tree or shrubbery that may be standing on any of the streets, alleys, right of ways, or other public places of the city, without prior written approval of a majority of the City Council; unless determined by a majority of the City Council to be inappropriate, the person(s) removing the tree and/or the property owner from whose property the tree is removed shall immediately replace the removed tree with a tree of the same species as the removed tree.
(Prior Code KOC, § 1020.30, passed 5-2-1988) Penalty, see § 95.99