(a) Each homeowner (i.e. titled owner) shall assume complete responsibility for the purchase, planting, maintaining, trimming and removing shade trees in and along the streets of the Village, with the approval of the Tree Conservation Committee or Village Council, growing now or hereafter, and on public property/area of the Village.
(b) The Village, as part of its Tree Conservation Program, for purposes of controlling the blight and disease of shade trees within public right-of-ways and on public property, shall be responsible for monitoring the purchase, planting, maintaining, trimming and removing shade trees in and along the streets of the Village, growing now or hereafter, and on public property/area of the Village.
(c) The Village, as part of its Tree Conservation Program, shall maintain a fund to assist homeowners with a financial hardship in maintaining shade trees within public right-of-ways and on public property within the Village.
(d) The Village Tree Conservation Committee or Village Council shall be solely responsible for reviewing hardship requests on a case-by-case basis. The determination of Village Tree Conservation Committee or Village Council to provide financial assistance for the maintenance or removal of a tree with the public right-of-way shall be final.
(Res. 1983-35. Passed 12-13-83; Ord. 2006-10. Passed 4-11-06; Ord. 2021-32. Passed 1-18-22.)