[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Manheim as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 7-26-1954 by Ord. No. 1954-9[1] (Part 9, Ch. 2, of the 1976 Code of Ordinances)]
[1]
Editor's Note: Sections 1 through 5, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17
of Ord. No. 1954-9 were repealed 12-27-1976 by Ord. No. 1976-12. Furthermore,
the Shade Tree Commission was abolished by Ord. No. 1982-3, adopted
2-22-1982, and the Board of Commissioners was directed to exercise
all the rights and perform all the duties imposed by the First Class
Township Code upon shade tree commissions.
No person, owner, tenant or agent owning or having in charge
or control any lot or other piece of ground in the Township shall
plant, set out, trim or remove any shade tree on any of the public
streets or highway within the Township, unless he shall obtain a permit
in writing from the Board of Township Commissioners.
Every person desiring to plant, set out, trim or remove any
shade tree on or from any public street or highway in the Township
shall make application in writing to the Board of Township Commissioners
for permission to do so, which application shall state specifically
the location and kind of tree proposed to be planted, set out, trimmed
or removed, and how it is to be maintained, cared for, trimmed or
removed.
In order to secure uniformity and the best results, the kind
and the location of shade trees to be planted in and upon the public
streets and highways in the Township shall be subject to the approval
of the Township Commissioners.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, break or injure
the roots, trunk, limbs or branches of any shade tree planted or growing
in or upon the streets or highways in the Township, or to hitch a
horse or other animal to any such shade tree, or to tack or post a
notice, handbill or advertisement of any kind upon any such tree,
or guards around the same, or to do any other thing whereby any shade
tree may be marred, disfigured or injured.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or allow any salt
water, oil, dye or any other substance deleterious to tree life to
lie, leak or flow on or into the soil about the base of a tree in
or along any public street or highway in the Township.
In the erection or repair of any building or structure, the
builder, contractor or owner thereof shall place such guards around
all the nearby trees on the public street or highway as shall effectually
prevent injury to them.
The Board of Township Commissioners may, upon 10 days'
notice, require owners of property to cut and remove trees afflicted
with the Dutch Elm or other disease which threatens to injure or destroy
the shade trees in the Township, and thereupon, the Township may exercise
the authority vested in it by Section 3027.1 of the First Class Township
Code.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 58027.1.
[Amended 12-12-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-28[1]]
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall,
for every such violation, be subject to a fine or penalty of not less
than $25 nor more than $1,000, and costs.
