[Adopted 9-9-1998 by Ord. No. 3005 (Ch. 19 of the 1990 Code)]
There shall be a Shade Tree Commission of the Township of Franklin.
[Amended 2-24-2009 by Ord. No. 3816; 2-24-2015 by Ord. No. 4100-15]
The Shade Tree Commission shall consist of seven members and two alternates who are residents of the Township appointed by the Township Manager, and they shall serve for staggered five-year terms. One member shall also be a member of the Environmental Commission. One member shall be an employee of the Township Public Works and Engineering Department. To the extent possible, a member should be employed as a tree surgeon or involved in a tree-related business, and a member should have an academic horticultural or landscape architecture background. Members shall serve for their respective terms and until their successors thereafter have been appointed and qualified.
The Shade Tree Commission shall have the power and authority for the regulation, planting, care and control of shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery upon or in the highways, parks or parkways within the jurisdiction of the Township of Franklin and shall exercise all powers and rights provided in N.J.S.A. 40:64-1 et seq., Shade Tree Commission, as amended and supplemented.