No person, firm or corporation 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 therefrom will injure any portion of any tree or shrub along any public street or way, or in or upon any public park or public place in the City, nor shall any person, firm or corporation knowingly permit any leak to exist in any gas pipe or main within the root zone of such tree or shrub, nor permit any toxic chemical, either solid or liquid to pass, drain or be emptied on or about any such tree or shrub. No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly permit any wire, designed to carry electric current, to come in contact with any tree or shrub unless protected by such methods as shall be approved by the Commissioner of Parks, Forestry and Open Space Planning, and no person, firm or corporation shall attach any such electric insulation to any such tree or excavate any ditches, tunnels or trenches, or lay any driveway within a radius of five feet from any such tree or shrub without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Commissioner of Parks, Forestry and Open Space Planning.
(Ord. 14-95. Passed 1-10-95.)