It shall be lawful for the owners of property to plant and maintain
ornamental shade trees in front thereof in the streets and highways and alleys
of the Borough of Mount Oliver and to cause the same to be protected by boxes
or posts.
Such ornamental shade trees shall not be placed in the driveways and
shall be placed in such manner and in such places as not to incommode the
free use of the footways and sidewalks, and such trees shall be planted in
such manner and in such places so as not to stop or obstruct the free passage
of the water along the gutters.
It shall be unlawful to plant or maintain upon the streets or highways
or on private property any of the varieties of Poplar trees, and it shall
be unlawful to plant or maintain any shade trees in that part of Southern
Avenue known also as the Brownsville Road, extending from Arlington Avenue
southerly to Hays Avenue.
[Amended 8-21-1969 by Ord.
No. 563]
Every person or persons, partnership, firm or corporation violating
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof for each and
every such violation, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000.) and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days. Each day's
continuance of a violation shall constitute a separate violation.
In all cases where a shade tree obstructs the water in a gutter, or
where the roots do injury to a water or gas pipe or to a sewer, or raise the
pavement, or where a tree incommodes the free use of a sidewalk or where the
tree is one of the varieties of the Poplar tree, the Borough Council may order
the owner of the premises on which such tree shall be growing, or of the abutting
premises where such tree shall be growing within the sidewalk area, to remove
such tree within ten (10) days, in default of which the Borough Council shall
have authority to cause such tree to be removed and to collect the cost of
such removal, with an additional amount of ten per centum (10%).