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under the provisions of said act shall have exclusive control of 

 the public parks belonging to or under the control of such muni- 

 cipality 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, alter- 

 ing, amending, repealing, and publishing ordinances in said mu- 

 nicipality 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 effec- 

 tive. Under Chapter 198 of the laws of 1908 and Chapter 

 167 of the laws of 1910, the law of 1893 was amended as fol- 

 lows: "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 supplement, 



