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ing, publishing, and making of the same, so as to make it legal and binding, have 

 been complied with, unless the contrary be shown. 



SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Approved May 2, 1906. 



[Laws of New Jersey of 1906.] 



CHAPTER 245. 

 An act in relation to the control of public parks belonging to or under the control of 



any municipality of this state or any department in the government thereof. 

 Be it enacted ly 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 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," the commission appointed under the 

 provisions of said act shall have exclusive control of 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, 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 ordinances 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 aforesaid 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 any 

 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 the 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 the power of adopting the act to which this is a supple- 

 ment, 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 and supple- 

 ments thereto, shall take effect in said city or town, except that no inde- 

 pendent shade-tree commission shall be appointed." 



