XXXIII. No person shall be permitted to run a motor vehicle in the parks or 

 parkways of this City under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, which 

 emits from the exhaust or muffler thereof offensive quantities of smoke or gas or 

 disagreeable odors. 



XXXV. No vehicle of any kind shall be allowed to enter any park or along 

 any parkway in tow of any other vehicle or device whereby the power, whether 

 muscular or motive, is not directly attached to such vehicle, but in the case of 

 breakdowns within parks or parkways such vehicle may be towed to the nearest 

 point of exit. 



1. All vehicles must carry a lighted lamp, showing a white light ahead, from 

 thirty minutes after sunset until thirty minutes before sunrise. 



7. Drivers, riders and cyclists must not exceed a speed of eight miles an hour 

 in the parks and parkways. 



8. Cyclists must not coast in the parks, nor on the parkways, or bicycle paths, 

 and must keep their feet on the pedals and their hands on the handle bars. 



12. Instruction in operating automobiles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or other 

 such vehicles of propulsion, and all trick or fancy riding on the same, is prohibited 

 in the parks and parkways at all limes. 



13. Wheelmen shall not ride on the paths in any park; those walking upon the 

 park paths may push their wheels along said paths ; but in no case shall the wheels 

 be taken upon the turf. 



Ordinances adopted, pursuant to chapter 453 of the Laws of 1902 : 



1. No shade or ornamental tree or shrub shall be planted in any of the streets, 

 avenues or public thoroughfares of The City of New York until such tree or shrub 

 shall have been first approved by a duly appointed employee or expert of the Com- 

 missioner having jurisdiction, and a permit granted therefor. 



3. No stem, branch or leaf of any such tree or shrub shall be cut, broken or 

 otherwise disturbed until a permit has been granted therefor by the Commissioner 

 having jurisdiction. 



4. No root of any such tree or shrub shall be disturbed or interfered with in 

 any way by any individual or any officer or employee of a public or private cor- 

 poration until a permit shall have been issued therefor by the Commissioner having 

 jurisdiction. 



5. The surface of the ground within three feet of any tree or shrub growing 

 on any street, avenue or other public thoroughfare shall not he cultivated, fer- 

 tilized, paved, or given any treatment whatever, except under permit granted by the 

 Commissioner having jurisdiction. 



6. It shall not be lawful to attach or maintain any guv rope, cable or other 

 contrivance to any tree or shrub, or to use the same in connection with any banner, 

 transparency, or any business purpose whatever, except under a permit from the 

 Commissioner having jurisdiction. 



7. It shall not be lawful to cut, deface, mutilate, or in any way misuse, any 

 tree or shrub, nor shall any horse or other animal be permitted to stand in a 

 manner or position where it may or shall cut, deface or mutilate any tree or shrub, 

 nor shall any building material or other material of any kind or any debris be 

 piled or maintained against any tree or shrub. 



8. It shall not be lawful to attach or string any electric or other wire, or to 

 adjust or carry the same into or over any park or parkway, except under a permit 

 from the Commissioner having jurisdiction. 



9. Any person violating the foregoing ordinances of chapter 453 of the Laws 

 of 1902 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof before a 

 City Magistrate be punished by a fine not exceeding $50, or in default of payment 

 of such fine, by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. 



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