CHAPTER XIII 

 LEGISLATION 



WHILE a number of States have laws regarding the plant 

 ing and care of street-trees, none are as broad as the pro 

 visions of the statutes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and 

 Massachusetts. The laws of these States are therefore given 

 in full. 



NEW JERSEY 

 LAWS OF NEW JERSEY 



General Public Laws ; Session of 1893. 

 Chapter CCLXXXV. 



AN act to provide for the planting and care of shade-trees on 

 the highways of the municipalities of this State. 



SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 

 of the State of New Jersey, That in all the municipalities of this 

 State there may be appointed, in the manner hereinafter provided, 

 a commission of three freeholders, who shall serve without com 

 pensation, and who shall have the exclusive and absolute control 

 and power to plant, set out, maintain, protect and care for shade- 

 trees in any of the public highways of their respective muni 

 cipalities, the cost thereof to be borne and paid for in the manner 

 hereinafter directed. 



SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be optional with the 

 governing body of any municipality whether this act shall have 

 effect in, and such commissioners shall be appointed in, such 

 municipality; and when any such governing body shall by resolu 

 tion approve of this act and direct that such commissioners shall 



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