Chapter 20 TREES AND LANDSCAPING*

Section 20-51 Duties.

    The committee shall take active steps to organize subcommittees  to:

    (1)    Educate the public as to the economic and aesthetic benefits of trees to the city and its  citizens, both on publicly owned property and privately owned property;

    (2)    Promote the care, fertilization,  protection and other measures desirable for the health and growth of existing trees in street rights-of-way in the city;

    (3)    Promote replacement of trees, which of necessity (because of age, decay, etc.) must be  removed; and

    (4)    Protect trees located in street rights-of-way in the city from damage, removal, lack of sustenance or any other act or condition which might threaten the health and growth of such trees.

(Code 1958,  22B-26)