FORESTRY LEAFLET No. 16 



ISSUED MAY 15, 1914 



Maryland State Board of Forefty 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



ROADSIDE TREE LAW 



Acts of 1914, Chapter 824, "An act conferring power upon the State 

 Board of Forestry to plant trees along the roadsides, to protect road- 

 side trees, to establish one or more nurseries for their propagation, 

 to prohibit the unauthorized placing of advertisements and other no- 

 tices on the public highways or the property of other persons, and 

 to provide a penalty for the violation thereof." 



SECTION 1. The State Board of Forestry shall, in addition to the 

 powers heretofore granted it, have the power to plant trees along the 

 roadsides, to make all rules and regulations governing their planting, to 

 care for and protect all roadside trees of this State, and to establish one or 

 more State or Forest Nurseries for the propagation of trees for such 

 roadside planting. 



SEC. 2. Roadside trees as designated in this Act shall mean all trees 

 planted by the Forest Wardens, or existing trees three inches or more in 

 diameter, measured two feet from the ground, that may be growing within 

 the right-of-way of any public road or between the curb lines and prop- 

 erty lines of any street in an incorporated town in this State. 



SEC. 3. When the County Commissioners or the Road Supervisors of 

 any county of this State, the State Roads Commission, the Town Council 

 of any city or incorporated town, or any organization or person, shall 

 apply to the State Forester for the planting of trees or for the care and 

 protection of existing trees along a public road or street, and the State 

 Forester deems an ezamination necessary, he shall instruct the local 

 Forest Warden to examine the situation where planting, care or protec- 

 tion of trees is desired and to report the conditions with his recommend- 

 ations to the State Forester. If, in the judgment of the State Forester, 

 the planting of trees or the care or protection of existing trees is ad- 

 .visable, he shall submit a plan covering the required operations with his 

 recommendations and an estimate of the cost of the work to the organi- 

 zation or persons from which the application originated. 



