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upon any such street any trees without first obtaining a permit so to do from said 

 commission or said board of trustees. 



SEC. 83. Trimming and cutting without permit. It shall be unlawful for any 

 person to trim, cut, mutilate, or injure any tree, or the roots or branches thereof, 

 or injure or impair the growth or life thereof, or to place or install upon any street 

 any telephone pole, electric light, trolley, or power pole within six feet of rhe trunk 

 of any tree growing upon such street without a permit so to do first obtained from 

 said tree warden, or said commission, or said board of trustees; provided, that 

 nothing herein shall prevent a proper trimming of trees to prevent obstruction to 

 pedestrians or public travel, as required by subdivision 5 of section 29 of this 

 ordinance. 



ARTICLE XIX. 



SEC. 288. Failure or neglect to plant trees, when unlaivful. Whenever the tree 

 commission or board of trustees shall grant to any person permission to remove any 

 trees growing upon any public street, conditioned upon planting other trees in places 

 thereof, it shall be unlawful for such person to fail or neglect to so plant such other 

 trees within the times fixed for such planting by said commission or said trustees. 



ARTICLE IV ANIMALS. 



SEC. 30. Subdivision 2. Tying animals to trees. It shall be unlawful for any 

 person to tie or permit to be tied, any such animal to any shade or ornamental tree 

 upon any sidewalk or street therein, or to be so tied that such animal can graze 

 upon such sidewalk or street. 



It will be noted that in the ordinances in force in Redlands and 

 Riverside provision is made for planting by city authorities. In this 

 one fact, more than in any other single feature, lies the success of the 

 plantings in those towns. The city of San Bernardino has an excellent 

 ordinance, but it does not vest definite authority for planting in the 

 hands of one officer or set of officers. The result has been that only 

 the negative advantages of their ordinance have become apparent. 



Many other instances may be cited of towns where insufficient legis- 

 lation defeats the value of such articles as ma}^ be in force. 



Often the only mention of trees to be found in the statute books will 

 be an ordinance forbidding the planting of certain species within 

 definite distances from the water and sewer pipes. Oftentimes defective 

 piping causes the difficulty, by allowing easy entrance to the roots of 

 trees. It can not be disputed that the roots of trees, some more than 

 others, will turn, in search of water, toward the pipes. This is espe- 

 cially true where there is any leakage, however slight, at any of the 

 joints. 



The town of Oroville has made most extensive study of this matter, 

 and has a large list of trees which may not be used in the Oroville 

 streets because of difficulty in roots seeking the water. It is to be hoped 

 that the town will take up the matter of tree-planting along the best 

 lines with the same enthusiasm that has been shown in blacklisting 

 certain offending trees. 



As an example of the means used to enforce popular attention, the 

 following "Warning" may be of interest. The Los Angeles County 



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