116 STREET AND HIGHWAY PLANTING. 



to give the commissions the power to pass ordinances for the protection 

 of shade trees on the public streets and in the public parks. 



[Laws of New Jersey of 1905.] 

 CHAPTER 108. 



A supplement to an act entitled, "An act to provide for the planting and care of 

 shade trees on the highways of the municipalities of this State," approved March 



twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. 

 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 



SECTION 1. In any municipality which now has or hereafter shall take advan- 

 tage of the act to which this is a supplement the commission appointed under the 

 provisions thereof shall have exclusive control over the public parks belonging to 

 or under the control of such municipality, or any department in the government 

 thereof, with full power and authority to improve, repair, manage, maintain, 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, flowers, shrubs, statuary therein, 

 and also for the protection, regulation, and control of all shade trees planted or 

 growing upon the public highways of any such municipality, and to prescribe fines 

 and penalties for the violation thereof and fix the amount of the same; the method 

 now in use for the passing, enacting, altering, amending, and publishing ordinances 

 in said municipality shall be the method used to pass, enact, alter, amend, repeal, 

 and publish the ordinances therein mentioned. 



SEC. 3. All moneys collected from fines or penalties for the violation of any 

 ordinances of any such commission, and all moneys collected for assessments made 

 upon the property for the cost of planting and transplanting any trees ; and the 

 boxes or guards for the protection thereof in any such city, shall bo forthwith paid 

 over to the proper municipal authorities and shall be placed to the credit of the said 

 commission and subject to be drawn upon by the said commission in the manner 

 provided by law for the payments of moneys in any such municipality. 



SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Approved April 6, 1905. 



[Laws of New Jersey of 1906.] 

 CHAPTER 186. 



A supplement to an act entitled ''An act to provide for the planting and care of 

 shade trees on the highways of the municipalities of this State, approved March 

 twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three." 

 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 



SECTION 1. The said commission may prescribe penalties for the violation of 

 any of their ordinances, and the courts which now or hereafter shall have jurisdiction 

 over actions for the violation of ordinances of the municipality in which said 

 commission has been or shall be appointed shall have jurisdiction in actions for the 

 violation of such ordinances as the said commission shall enact ; and said ordinances 

 shall be enforced by like proceedings and processes, and the practice for the enforce- 

 ment of said ordinances shall be the same as that provided by law for the enforce- 

 ment of the ordinances of the municipality in which such commission exists. 



SEC. 2. The officers authorized by law to serve and execute processes in the 

 courts, as aforesaid, shall be the officers to serve and execute any process issued out 

 of any court under this act. 



SEC. 3. A copy of any ordinance or ordinances of said commission certified to 

 under the hand of the clerk, secretary, or president of the said commission, shall 

 be taken in any court of this state as full and legal proof of the existence of such 

 ordinance or ordinances, and that all requirements of law in relation to the ordain- 



