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park, stone, cement, or other substance which shall impede the free entrance of 

 water and air to the roots of any tree in such highway or park, without leaving an 

 open space of ground outside the trunk of said tree, in area not less than four 

 square feet. 



Section 10. Provides that in the erection or repair of a building or structure, 

 the owner thereof shall place such guards around all nearby trees on the highway 

 as shall effectually prevent injury to them. 



Section 1 1 . Provides that every person or corporation having any wires charged 

 with electricity running through a public highway or park shall securely fasten or 

 protect such wires so that they will not come in contact with any tree therein. 

 (An improvement on this section would be the addition of a supplementary clause, 

 providing that on certain highways the companies controlling such wires should be 

 required to place them in an underground conduit.) 



Section 12. Provides that no person or corporation shall prevent, delay, or 

 interfere with the Shade Tree Commission or its employees in the planting, prun- 

 ing, spraying, or removing of a tree in a public highway or a park, or in the removal 

 of stone, cement, or other substance about the base of the tree. 



Section 13. Provides that no person shall plant any tree in any highway with- 

 out first having obtained the permission of the Shade Tree Commission in writing, 

 showing the variety, size and location of such tree. 



Section 14. Provides that no person shall pour salt water or any injurious 

 chemical upon a public highway in such a manner as to injure any tree planted or 

 growing thereon. 



Section 15. Provides that every person or corporation having any wire charged 

 with electricity running through a public highway, shall temporarily remove such 

 wire or the electricity therefrom when it shall be necessary, in order to take down 

 or prune any trees growing in such highway, within twenty-four hours after the 

 service upon the owner of said wire, or his agent, of a written notice, signed by two 

 members of the Shade Tree Commission, or its secretary, upon the order of such 

 Commission. 



Section 16. Provides that every violation by the same person or corporation 

 of any provision of this ordinance or the continuation of the violation of any of its 

 provisions on any day or days succeeding the first violation thereof, shall constitute 

 an additional violation for each of such succeeding days. 



Section 17. Provides that any person or corporation violating any of the pro- 

 visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as follows: 

 For a first offense such party shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than fifty 

 dollars; for a second or any subsequent offense, a fine of not more than one hundred 

 dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both the fine and imprison- 

 ment. 



