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.)