(A) No person shall intentionally damage, cut, carve, top, lion's tail, transplant, or remove any tree; attach any device such as but not limited to rope, wire, nails, advertising posters, or other contrivance to any public tree or shrub; allow any gaseous, liquid, or solid substance to come in contact with them; set fire or permit fire to burn when the fire or heat thereof shall injure any portion of any tree or shrub.
(B) No person shall excavate any ditches, tunnels, trenches, alleys, or driveways within a radius of twenty feet from the trunk of any public tree or shrub without obtaining approval via written permit from the village.
(C) No person shall permit any natural or artificial gas, salt, brine, water, oil, liquid dye or any other substances deleterious to trees to come in contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree upon any public place in the village in such a manner as to kill, injure, deface, destroy, or affect the growth of such trees.
(D) No person shall deposit, drive, place, store, or maintain upon any public place of the village, any stone, brick, sand, concrete, or other materials which may impede the free passage of water, air, or nutrients to the roots of any public tree growing therein, except by written permit of the village.
(Ord. 2022-15, passed 6-13-2022)