Section 6. No person or corporation shall, without a writ- 
ten permit from the Commission on Beautifying the City place or 
maintain or cause to be placed or maintained in a public highway 
of the city any stone, cement or other substance which shall 
impede the free access of water and air to the roots of any tree 
in such highway. Unless otherwise provided for in such written 
permit there must be maintained about the base of the trunk of 
each shade tree of the city four square feet of open ground for a 
tree three inches in diameter, and for every three inches of in- 
crease of such diameter there must be an increase of at least 
one square foot of open ground. 
Section 7. No person or corporation shall in anywise inter- 
fere or cause or permit any person to interfere with the Commis- 
sion on Beautifying the City, or its employees, in and about the 
planting, mulching, pruning, spraying or removing of any tree 
in the public streets of the City or in the removing of stone, 
cement or other sidewalk, or stone cement or other substance 
about the trunk of any tree in any such street of the city, or in 
cultivating, seeding and caring for the parking space between 
the street curbing and the sidewalk in any sidewalk of the city. 
Section 8. No person shall stand or walk upon or in any 
way injure the grass growing upon parking space between the 
street curbing and the sidewalk upon any street of the city. 
Section 9. No person shall hitch or fasten any horse or 
other animal to any tree, box, stake, or guard securing such 
tree on the streets, avenues or other public grounds of the City 
of Norfolk, or tie any horse or animal within reach ot any tree 
or shrubbery or turn loose, or permit to be turned loose, or per- 
mit to stand unfastened any horse or other animal, or permit 
the same to graze or roam at large on any street, avenue, park, 
parkway or other public grounds of the city. 
Section 10. No person or corporation shall affix or cause 
to be affixed to any tree upon the streets of the city or other 
public grounds any notice, announcement, advertisement or other 
thing whether in writing or otherwise, or make cuts, paint or 
marks except for the protection of said trees or for giving its 
common and botanical name without written permission first 
obtained from the Commission on Beautifying the City. 
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