Town of Amherst, NY
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2023-07-24
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 179 Trees
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Article IV Care and Preservation
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Design Advisory Board
- Ch 6 Arts and Culture in Public Places Board
- Ch 7 Amherst Central Park Task Force
- Ch 8 Citizens' Advisory Committees
- Ch 9 Clerk
- Ch 10 Compensation
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Employee Suggestion Program
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 14A Disabilities, Committee on
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employees' Rights of Organization
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Freedom of Information
- Ch 25 Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board
- Ch 28 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 32 Minority- and Women-Owned Business Utilization Commitment
- Ch 36 Open Burning
- Ch 39 Police Assistance, Power to Grant
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 42 Property, Lease or Sale
- Ch 43 Licensing of Property Managers
- Ch 44 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 45 Residency Requirements
- Ch 52 Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 54 Supervisor
- Ch 55 Term Limits
- Ch 56 Tax Bill Enclosures
- Ch 56A Town Board
- Ch 57 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 58 Adjudicatory Proceedings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 65 Alarms
- Ch 68 Amusements
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Bingo
- Ch 78 Blasting and Explosives
- Ch 79 Boats
- Ch 83 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 87 Cable Television
- Ch 89 (Reserved)
- Ch 92 Conservation Easements
- Ch 95 Curb Cuts
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Animals
- Ch 103 Emergency Responder Radio Coverage
- Ch 104 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 106 Excavations
- Ch 108 Expert Fees, Reimbursement of
- Ch 110 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 Games of Chance
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 118 Gasoline
- Ch 119 Geodetic Control Point Network
- Ch 120 Highways, Controlled-Access
- Ch 121 Historic Preservation
- Ch 122 House Trailers
- Ch 125 Improvements, Construction of Public
- Ch 126 Industrial Cost Recovery System
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Junkyards
- Ch 130 Landscapers
- Ch 132 Lighting
- Ch 138 Noise
- Ch 139 Notification of Defects
- Ch 140 Mailbox Setback
- Ch 143 Parking for Handicapped
- Ch 144 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 145 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 148 Peddling, Soliciting, Transient Businesses and Mobile Food Vending
- Ch 149 Picketing
- Ch 151 Property Maintenance
- Ch 152 Public Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 153 Municipal Opioid Cost Recovery and Public Nuisance
- Ch 155 Recreation and Open Space
- Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 158 Sewer Rates
- Ch 160 Sewers
- Ch 163 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 166 Snowplowing
- Ch 167 Social Host Liability
- Ch 169 Solid Waste
- Ch 172 Stormwater and Erosion Control; Illicit Discharges
- Ch 175 Taxation
- Ch 177 Taxicabs
- Ch 179 Trees
- Ch 179 Art IV Care and Preservation
- § 179-6 Street and park trees.
- § 179-7 Pruning by owners; street intersections.
- § 179-8 Obstruction of streetlights, traffic devices and signs.
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 186 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 189 Vehicles, Removal and Storage of
- Ch 191 Vending Machines
- Ch 194 (Reserved)
- Ch 198 Weapons
- Ch 199 Wild Waterfowl
- Ch 200 Wetlands
- Ch 203 Zoning
- Ch 204 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 205 Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (Lwrp)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Division of Forestry shall have the right to prune, treat,
maintain and preserve any street or park tree as may be necessary
to ensure public safety or to preserve or enhance the symmetry and
beauty of public streets and parks.
Every owner of any tree overhanging any street or right-of-way
within the Town shall prune the branches of said tree so that such
branches shall not obstruct the view of any street intersection and
so that there shall be a clear space of eight feet above the surface
of the street or sidewalk. Said owners, upon notice by the Town, shall
remove all dead, diseased or dangerous trees or broken or decayed
limbs which constitute a danger and menace to the safety of the public.
The Highway Superintendent shall have the right to prune any
tree or shrub on private property when it interferes with the proper
spread of light along the street from a streetlight or interferes
with visibility of any traffic control device or sign.
