(A) (1) No person shall cause, authorize or permit any brine water, oil, liquid dye or other substance deleterious to tree life to lie, leak, pour, flow or drip upon or into the soil about the base of any tree, heritage tree or mature native tree, or onto any sidewalk, road or pavement at a point from which the substance may by lying upon or flowing, dripping or seeping into the soil causing injury to or otherwise harm or kill any tree, heritage tree, or mature native tree.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to break, injure, remove, cut or deface, mutilate, kill or destroy any tree or set fire or permit any fire to burn where the fire or the heat thereof will injure any portion of any tree. It shall be unlawful for any person to break, injure, or deface mutilate, kill or destroy any heritage tree or mature native tree or set fire or permit any fire to burn where the fire or the heat thereof will injure any portion of any heritage tree or mature native tree without prior written approval of the Planning Director or Planning Commission.
(3) No person, without the approval of the Public Works Director, shall place or maintain any stone, cement or other substance so that it shall impede the free access of water or air to the roots of any tree. No person, without approval of the Planning Director, shall place or maintain any stone, cement or other substance so that it shall impede the free access of water or air to the roots of any heritage tree or mature native tree without prior written approval of the Planning Director or Planning Commission.
(B) No person shall place, apply, attach or keep attached to any tree, or to the guard or stake intended for the protection thereof, any wire, rope, sign, paint or any other substance, structure, thing or device of any kind or nature whatsoever without first obtaining written permission of the Public Works Director. No person shall place, apply, attach, or keep attached to any heritage tree or mature native tree, or to the guard or stake intended for protection thereof, any wire, rope, sign, paint or any substance, structure, thing, or device of any kind or nature whatsoever without first obtaining written permission of the Planning Director.
(`61 Code, § 23A.12) (Ord. 419, passed 2-5-1963; Am. Ord. 946, passed 10-7-2003)