Editor's note-Ordinance 11-09-46, sec. 3, adopted Sept. 20, 2011, repealed secs. 34-165-34-167, which pertained to establishment, powers and duties, and procedures of the urban forestry board, and derived from: Ordinance 03-08-72, secs. 2-4, adopted Aug. 19, 2003; and Ordinance 11-09-39, sec. 2, adopted Sept. 6, 2011. For similar provision see ch. 2, art. III, div. 9 of this Code. |
Unless authorized by a written permit issued by the city:
(1)
No person shall damage, top, cut, carve, transplant, or remove any tree on public property; allow any gas, liquid, or solid substance which is harmful to such trees to come in contact with them; set fire or permit any fire to burn which may injure any portion of any such tree.
(2)
Upon the discovery of any destructive or communicable disease, or other pestilence which endangers the growth or health of trees, or threatens to spread disease or insect infestations. The urban forestry board shall at once, cause written notice to be served upon the owner of the property upon which such diseased or infested tree is situated, and the notice shall require such property owner to eradicate, remove, or otherwise control such condition within a reasonable time to be specified in such notice.
(3)
A person damaging a tree on public property shall be liable to the city for any loss of value. In the event that damage is so pervasive as to result in the treatment or removal of the tree, the person damaging such tree shall be liable for all costs of treatment and/or removal.
(Ordinance 03-08-72, sec. 5, adopted 8/19/03)