[Ord. 5/22/24, S1; Ord. #1125, S1]
No person, without the written permit of the environmental commission,
shall cut, break, climb or injure any tree or portion of tree planted
or growing in any public highway within the borough or cause, authorize
or procure any person to cut, break, climb or injure any such tree
or any portion thereof; or to cut, break, climb or injure any tree
or plant, or any portion of any tree or plant, planted or growing
in any park or parking strip within the borough or cause or authorize
or procure any person to cut, break, climb or injure any such tree
or plant or any portion of such tree or plant; or to injure, misuse
or remove, or cause, authorize or procure any person to injure, misuse
or remove any device set for the protection of any tree or plant in
any street or borough park of the borough. Any person desiring for
any lawful purpose to cut, prune or trim any tree in any street of
the borough may apply to the environmental commission and if in the
judgment of the commission the desired cutting, pruning or trimming
shall appear necessary, and the proposed method and workmanship thereof
such as the commission approves, the environmental commission may
thereupon issue a written permit for such work. Any work done under
such written permit must be performed in strict accordance with the
terms thereof.
[Ord. 2/19/12, S2; Ord. #1125, S1]
No person shall kill or remove or cause, authorize or procure
the death or removal of, any tree planted or growing in any street,
or any tree or plant planted or growing in any borough park within
the borough. Any person desiring for any lawful purpose to take down
or remove any tree in any street of the borough may apply to the environmental
commission; and if in the judgment of the commission the desired taking
down or removal shall appear necessary, the environmental commission
may thereupon issue a written permit therefor. Any work done under
such written permit must be performed in strict accordance with the
terms thereof.
[Ord. 2/9/12, SS3, 5]
No person owning or using or having control of gas or other
substance deleterious to tree life shall allow such gas or substance
to come into contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree
in any street or of any tree or plant in any borough park in the borough
in such manner as may injure, kill or destroy the tree or plant. No
person shall cause, authorize or procure any brine water, oil, liquid
dye or other substance deleterious to tree life to lie, leak, pour,
flow or drip on or into the soil about the base of a tree in any street
or borough park, or onto a sidewalk, road or pavement therein at a
point whence such substance may by lying on, or by flowing, dripping
or seeping into such soil, or in any other manner whatever, injure
such tree; or to cause or procure such lying, leaking, flowing, dripping,
seeping or injuring.
[Ord. 2/9/12, S6; Ord. #1125, S1]
No person, except with the written permit of the environmental
commission, shall place upon the ground in any street or borough park
any stone, cement or other material or substance in such manner as
may obstruct the free access of air and water to the roots of any
tree in any such street or park. Unless otherwise provided for in
such written permit, there must be maintained about the base of the
trunk of each shade tree in the street and borough parks at least
six (6) square feet of open ground for a tree of three (3) inches
in diameter, and for every two (2) inches of increase of such diameter
there must be an increase of at least one (1) square foot of open
ground.
[Ord. 2/9/12, S7; Ord. #1125, S1]
No person shall interfere or cause any interference with the environmental commission or any of its employees while they are engaged in and about the planting, cultivating, mulching, pruning, spraying or removing of any tree in any street or borough park or in the removing of any device attached to a tree or in such removing of stone, cement, sidewalk or other material or substance as may be necessary for the protection and care of any such tree in accordance with the requirements set forth in subsection 15-1.4 as to the area of open ground to be maintained about the base of the trunk of each shade tree in the street and borough parks.
[Ord. 2/9/12, S8]
No person shall cause, authorize or procure a wire or other
conductor, charged with electricity, to come into contact with any
tree in a street or with any tree or plant in a borough park in such
manner as may injure, abrade, destroy or kill a tree or plant.
[Ord. 2/9/12, S10]
No person shall attach or keep attached to any tree in any street
or borough park or to the guard or stake intended for the protection
of such tree, any rope, wire or any other device whatsoever.
[Ord. 10/11/10, SS1, 2, 3]
No person shall tie any animal to any tree in any street or
borough park, or, having charge of such animal, allow it to injure
any such tree; or for any person in charge of such animal to cause
or allow it to stand so that it can injure such tree.
[Ord. 2/9/12, S12; Ord. #1125, S1]
No person shall plant or set out any shade tree, or cause or
authorize or procure any person to plant or set out any shade tree
in or on any part of any street or borough park, without first obtaining
from the environmental commission a written permit so to do or without
complying in all respects with the conditions set forth in such written
permit.
[New]
During the erection, repair, alteration or removal of any building
or structure within the borough, it shall be unlawful for the person
in charge of such erection, repair, alteration or removal, to leave
any tree in the vicinity of such building or structure without such
good and sufficient guards or protectors as shall prevent injury to
the tree arising out of or by reason of the erection, repair, alteration
or removal.
[Ord. 10/11/10, SS4, 5]
No person shall destroy, injure or deface any tree in the borough
or post, or affix thereon any signs, bills or advertisements of any
kind, name or nature whatsoever, excepting only such notices as may
be required by law.
