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viction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of Fifty Dollars ($50) for 

 each and every such offense. ' 



3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning, 

 or using, or having control or charge of gas or other substance 

 deleterious to tree life to allow such gas or other substance to come 

 into contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree in any 

 public highway or of any tree or plant in any city park in the City 

 of Newark in such manner as may injure such tree or plant. 



Any person, firm or corporation which shall violate or authorize 

 or procure a violation of any provision of this section shall, upon 

 conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of Ten Dollars ($10) 

 for each and every such offense. 



4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning, 

 or using, or having control or charge of gas or other substance 

 deleterious to tree life, to allow such gas or other substance to come 

 in contact with the soil surrounding the roots of any tree in any 

 public highway or any tree or plant in any city park in the City of 

 Ne^'ark in such manner as shall kill or destroy such tree or plant. 



Any person, firm or corporation which shall violate or authorize or 

 procure a violation of any provision of this section shall, upon con- 

 viction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of Fifty Dollars ($50) for 

 each and every such offense. 



5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to 

 cause, authorize or procure any brine water, oil, liquid dye or other 

 substance deleterious to tree life to lie, leak, pour, flow or drip on or 

 into the soil about the base of a tree in any public highway or city 

 park in the City of Newark, or onto a sidewalk, road or pavement 

 therein at a point whence such substance may by lying on, or by 

 flowing, dripping or seeping into such soil, or in any other manner 

 whatever, injure such tree ; or to cause or procure such lying, leaking, 

 flowing, dripping, seeping or injuring. 



Any person, flrm or corporation which shall violate or authorize 

 or procure a violation of any provision of this section shall, upon 

 conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of Five Dollars ($5) 

 for each and every such offense. 



6. It shall be imlawful for any person, firm or corporation, except 

 with the written permit of the Shade Tree Commission, to place or 

 maintain upon the ground in any public highway or city park within 

 the City of Newark any stone, cement or other material or substance 

 in such manner as may obstruct the free access of air and water to 

 the roots of any tree in any such highway or park. Unless otherwise 

 provided for in feuch written permit as above provided for there must 

 be maintained about the base of the trunk of each shade tree in the 

 public highways and city parks of the city at least six square feet of 

 open ground for a tree of three inches in. diameter, and for every two 

 inches of increase of such diameter there must be an increase of at 

 least one square foot of open ground. 



Any person, firm or corporation which shall violate or authorize or 

 procure a violation of any provision of this section shall, upon con- 

 viction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of Ten Dollars ($10) for 

 each and every such offense. 



