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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF SOUTH EUCLID, OHIO
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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
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PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
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PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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943.14 PUBLIC TREE CARE.
   (a)   The City shall have the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove all public trees, as may be necessary to insure public safety or to preserve or enhance the symmetry and beauty of public sites. The Tree Commission may remove or cause to be removed, any public tree or part thereof which is in an unsafe condition or which by reason of its nature is injurious to sewers, electric power lines, gas lines, water lines or other public improvements, or is affected with any injurious disease, insect or fungus.
   (b)   This section does not prohibit the planting of a tree along streets by property owners providing that the selection of such tree is in accordance with Sections 943.09 through 943.13. No property owner shall plant a tree within the rights-of-way without first obtaining the written approval of the Commission or the City Arborist.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
943.15 REMOVAL, REPLANTING AND REPLACEMENT OF PUBLIC TREES.
   (a)   Whenever it is necessary to remove a public tree in connection with the paving of a sidewalk or the widening of a portion of a street or highway, the City shall replant the tree, cause it to be replanted, or replace it with a species described in Sections 943.08 and 943.09. This requirement shall be satisfied if an equivalent number of trees of the largest possible mature size is planted at the nearest appropriate location as determined by the Tree Commission or the City Arborist.
   (b)   No person shall remove a public tree for the purpose of construction or any other reason, without the written permission of the Commission. The Commission may require replacement of a removed tree as a condition to the Commission's approval. Such replacement shall be in accordance with the criteria listed in Sections 943.08 and 943.09. The person or property owner shall bear the cost of removal and replacement of all public trees removed.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
943.16 MITIGATION OF FOREST CANOPY LOSS AND MAINTENANCE OF CANOPY COVER/TOPPING OF PUBLIC TREES.
   (a)   In the event that a person or entity removes a tree for any reason other than the tree having posed a hazard or having fallen, that person or entity shall compensate for the loss of canopy in one of the following ways:
      (1)   By planting a tree with a mature DBH equivalent to the DBH of the removed tree, or trees equivalent to that number, on private property in the city; or
      (2)   By depositing into the Tree Canopy Fund an amount that represents the city's cost to obtain and plant trees to replace the removed tree on the same site or elsewhere in the city at the 3x mature DBH rate.
   (b)   It shall be unlawful as a normal practice for any person, firm or City department to top any public tree. “Topping” means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three inches in diameter so as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree. Public trees severely damaged by storms or other causes, or certain trees under utility wires or other obstructions where other pruning practices are impractical may be exempted from this section at the determination of the Tree Commission.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
943.17 OBSTRUCTION; TREES PRUNED. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 943.17 was repealed by Ordinance 42-99, passed June 28, 1999.)
943.18 DEAD OR DISEASED TREE REMOVAL ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 943.18 was repealed by Ordinance 42-99, passed June 28, 1999.)
943.19 ABUSE AND/OR MUTILATION OF PUBLIC TREES.
   No person shall intentionally damage, cut, carve, transplant or remove any public tree. Unless specifically authorized by the Tree Commission, no person shall attach any rope, wire, nails, advertising posters or other contrivance to any public tree, allow any gaseous liquid or solid substance which is harmful to such trees to come in contact with them; or set fire or permit any fire to burn when such fire or heat therefrom will injure any portion of any public tree. No person shall pour salt water or a chemical or chemicals upon any street in such a way as to injure any tree planted or growing thereon. No person shall pile mulch or soil, or allow mulch or soil to be piled, around a public tree in a way that allows the mulch or soil to contact the base or trunk of the tree. Mulch or additional soil must be kept at least three inches away from the base of the tree. The City shall not be restricted in the use of anti-icing materials.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
943.20 PLACING MATERIALS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
   No person shall deposit, place, store or maintain upon any public place or the City, any stone, brick, sand, concrete or other materials which may impede the free passage of water, air and fertilizer to the roots of any public tree growing therein, except by written approval of the Tree Commission.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
943.21 PROTECTION OF PUBLIC TREES.
   (a)   All public trees located near any excavation or construction of any building, structure or street work, shall be guarded with a good substantial fence, frame or box not less than four feet high placed at the edge of the Critical Root Zone, measured as a distance of one foot per inch of DBH of the tree or beyond the dripline, whichever is larger. All laborers, building material, dirt or other debris shall be kept outside this barrier. The Tree Commission may permit a variance in cases where the barrier would impede the flow of traffic on a street, private street or driveway and where the prescribed distance interferes with a building or permanent structure.
   (b)   No person shall excavate any ditches or trenches within the Critical Root Zone of a public tree or lay any impervious pavementwithin fifteen feet of a public tree without first obtaining the written approval of the Tree Commission.
(Ord. 16-92. Passed 7-27-92; Ord. 20-15. Passed 12-28-15.)
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