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repair, manage, main tain, and control the same. 



Sec. 2. The said commission shall have full power and authority and is 

 hereby empowered to pass, enact, alter, amend, and repeal ordinances for the 

 protection, regulation, and control of such parks and the trees, flo\vers, shrubs, 

 statuary, and other improvements therein, and to prescribe fines and penalties 

 for the violation thereof and to fix the amount of the same. The method now or 

 hereafter in use for the passing, enacting, altering, amending, repealing, and 

 publishing ordinances in said municipality shall be the method used to pass, enact, 

 alter, amend, repeal, and publish the ordinances herein mentioned, and said ordin- 

 ances shall be enforced in the manner provided at the time of said enforcement 

 by law for the enforcement of the ordinances of the commission authorized by the 

 afreseid act and any amendments or supplements thereof. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved May 17, 1906. 



In the years 1907, 1908, and 1910, the shade-tree law of 1893 was further 

 amended. Under Chapter 156 of the laws of 1907, Section 1 was amended making it 

 optional with the governing body of sny municipality to increase the number of 

 members of the commission to five. Chapter 151 of -the laws of 1908 amended 

 section 2 so as to make it "optional with the body or board having charge of ihe 

 finances of any municipality" whether the. act of 1893 shall become effective. 

 Under Chapter 198 of the laws of 1908 and Chapter 167 of the laws of 1910, the law 

 of 1893 was amended as follows: "In any city or town in this state in which a 

 park commission now exists, the governing body invested with tine power of adopting 

 the act to which this is a supplement, may, in the resolution adopting said act, 

 provide that the said park commission shall also act as a shade-tree commission; and 

 the act to which this is a supplement, and the amendments thereof end supplements 

 thereto, shall take effect in said city or town, except that no independent shade- 

 tree commission shall be appointed." 



