No person shall break, injure, mutilate, kill or destroy any tree or shrub, or set fire or permit any fire to burn where such fire or the heat thereof will injure any portion of any tree or shrub in any highway, park or public place of the City. No person shall knowingly permit any leak to exist in any gas pipe or main within the root zone of any such tree or shrub. No person shall permit any toxic chemical, either solid or liquid, to seep, drain or be emptied on or about any tree or shrub. No person shall knowingly permit any wire designed to carry electric current to come in contact with any such tree or shrub unless protected by approved methods. No person shall attach any electric insulation to any tree or shall excavate any ditches, tunnels or trenches, or lay any drive within a radius of ten feet from any tree or shrub without first obtaining a written permit from the Director of Service.
Whenever the Director of Service determines it necessary in order to prune or remove any tree or shrub in any highway, park or public place of the City, or for any other reason temporarily to protect, move or cut off the electricity from any service wire, he shall serve written notice on the owner of such wire to protect, move or cut off the electricity from such wire and the owner shall comply with such order within twenty-four hours after the service of such notice.
(Ord. 3-53. Passed 5-25-53.)