Where any street or avenue in the city is so improved as to leave a parking strip between the property line and the street as improved, the owner or lessee of the property shall have and is given the right and privilege to use such parking strip for the purpose of planting and growing thereon shade trees, shrubbery, grass or flowers.
(1958 code § 6.48.010)
Any person who destroys or attempts to destroy any shade trees, shrubbery, grass or flowers which are not or may hereafter be planted or growing on any parking strip in the city is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100.00, or by imprisonment in the city jail for any period not exceeding 30 days.
(1958 code § 6.48.020)