7.40.140 Intentional damage.

(a) No person shall cause or authorize any brine water, oil, liquid dye, or other substance deleterious to tree life, to lie, leak, pour, flow or drip upon or into the soil about the base of any tree, shrub, or plant in any street, sidewalk, parkway, alley or other public property within the City, or onto any sidewalk, gutter, road, or pavement within the City at a point from which such substance may harm or kill any such tree, shrub, or plant.

(b) No person, without the approval of the Director, shall place or maintain any stone, cement or other substance on any sidewalk, street, parkway, alley or other public property so that it impedes the free access of water or air to the roots of any public tree or otherwise harm the health of the public tree.

(c) No person, without the approval of the Director, shall attach or keep attached any wire, rope, swing, or any other object to any public tree.

(d) No person shall plant or permit to grow any vine or planting that would interfere with the growth or maintenance of any public tree. (Prior code § 7613; amended by Ord. No. 1242CCS, adopted 1/26/82; Ord. No. 2388CCS § 15, adopted 1/10/12)