[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Metuchen 9-26-1966 as Ch. 32 of the 1966 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, without a written permit from
the Shade Tree Commission, cut, break, climb with spikes, injure or
remove any living tree in a public highway or injure, misuse or remove
any device placed to protect such tree.
No person shall, without a written permit from
the Shade Tree Commission, attach or keep attached to a tree in a
public highway or to the guard or stake intended for the protection
of such tree, a rope, wire, sign, poster or any other device.
No person shall, without a written permit from
the Shade Tree Commission, place or maintain upon the ground in a
public highway stone, cement or other substance which shall impede
the free entrance of water and air to the roots of any tree in such
highway without leaving an open space of ground outside the trunk
of such tree not less than four square feet in area.
Throughout the period of erection or repair
of a building or structure, the owner thereof shall place such guards
around all nearby trees on the public highway as shall effectually
prevent injury to such trees.
Every person having a wire charged with electricity
running through or over a public highway shall securely fasten such
wire so that it shall not come in contact with the trunk, or any limb,
branch or twig, of any tree there.
The species acer saccharinum (silver maple)
and all populus (poplars) are not acceptable as shade trees for street
planting and are prohibited.
All pruning tools used on trees under the jurisdiction
of the Shade Tree Commission shall be sterilized before entering each
tree in the discretion of this Commission.
No person shall prevent, delay or interfere
with the Shade Tree Commission or its employees in the planting, pruning,
spraying or removing of a tree in a public highway or in the removal
of stone, cement or other substance about the trunk of a tree.
