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deface, or in any manner to injure or cause or permit to be planted, removed, destroyed,
<br />cut, pruned or defaced~or in any manner injured, any tree or shrub in any street in
<br />the City of Santa Aha, without first obtaining a permit so to do from the City Planning
<br />Con~nission.
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<br /> Section 10. A fee of One Dollar (~1.00) shall be charged for each permit
<br />issued by the City Planning Cormuission for the removal or cutting down of any tree or
<br />shrub in or upon any street in the City of Santa Aha. Such permit fee shall include
<br />the permit for removal or cutting down of any number of trees or shrubs up 'to and
<br />including ten (10) of either such press or shrubs, provided~ that if a permit is
<br />issued for the removal or cutting down of more than ten (10) trees, an additional charge
<br />of fifty cents (~.50) shall be charged for every~additional unit of ten (10) trees or
<br />shrubs, or fraction thereof. Such oermit s~all specifically describe the work to be
<br />done thereunder, and such permit sha~l be voxd after thirty (50) days after its date.
<br />Such fee shall be turned over to the City Treasurer for the benefit of a special fund
<br />for the upSeep and maintenance of said trees, shrubs, etc., to be hereafter c~eated.
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<br /> Section 11. No person shall mo e any building or other object along any street
<br />in said City of Santa Aha, in such manner as to injure any tree or shrub in such street,
<br />without first having obtained a permit therefor from the City Forester and said Board
<br />of Forestry may, if deemed advisable, require any person moving a building or any other
<br />object a~ong a street in said City to furnish a bond in an amount sufficient to cover
<br />the damage:~ or destruction of trees or shrubs on any street.
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<br /> Section 12. The Board of Forestry shall prepare all reports required by law
<br />under any general laws of the State of California in connection with the planting or
<br />msintaining of trees on streets in the Ci~y of Santa Aha, and said Board shall exercise
<br />the powers an~ duties that are now or that may hereafter be imposed by general laws of
<br />the state relating to tree planting, subject, however, to the approval of the City
<br />Planning Commission, and shall make recommendations, after same have first been approved
<br />by the City Planning Co~mission, to t~e City Council from time to time as to what
<br />particular work should be ordered by tbs City Council und~r thc various tree planting
<br />act~ of the State of California.
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<br /> Section 13. In the event that the City of Santa Aha shall itself undertake
<br />to do the actual work of platting and ~aintaining of trees, shrubs, plants and lav~ in
<br />any street under any general law of the State of California, or in conformity wit~~ any
<br />procedure ordinance of the City of Santa Aha, the same shall be done by the C~ty Planning
<br />Commission, except that assessments shall be levied by the Board of Trustees of the City
<br />of Santa fine, and collections shall be made by the proper oerson designated by law to
<br />make such collections.
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<br /> Section 14. It shall be unlawful for any person to post or affix to any tree
<br />or sbru~, tree ~take or ~uard, in any street in sai~ city, any bill, poster, placard,
<br />picture, announcement, notice, advertisement or sign, or cut, paint, print or mark any
<br />of the same upon any such tree or shrub, tree stake or guard, or affix or attach in any
<br />manner any other thing whatsoever, including any guy wire or rope to any such tree or
<br />shrub, tree stake or ~uard, or ca~e any of the same to be ~one, except for the ourpose
<br />of protecting it, or other puroo~e anther!zed by this ordinance. Tree stakes or guards
<br />may be placed around trees, shrubs or plants by the City Plan ing Commission, or by
<br />property o~wners, provided the same are merely placed near a tree, shrub, or plant, for
<br />~he purpose of protecting or training such trees, shrubs or plants.
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<br /> It shall be unlawfm~l for any person to dump, p~ur or spill any oil, salt or
<br />salt w~ter or other delete ~ous matter ~pon any tree or tree space in any street, or
<br />keep or maintain upon any sidewalk withip ten (10) feet of any such tree or tree space
<br />on any street, any receotacle from which oil or salt water leaks or drioo or to oou~ of~
<br />or salt water on to any parking or concrete g~tter so ~s to injure any tree on any Street
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<br /> It shall be unlawful for any person to pile buildinZ material, or other materia
<br />about any tree~ plant or shrub in a street in any manner that will in any way injure
<br />~uch tree, plant or shrub.
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<br /> Section ]8. Any person~ firm or corooration violating any of the provisions
<br />of this ordinance sha!] be deeme~ guilty of a misdemeanor, and, ~0on conviction thereof,
<br />shall be phnishahle by a fdne of not more than Five Hundred Dollars (~i!S00.00), or Dy
<br />imprisornuent in the County Jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or by
<br />both such fine and imprisonment; and it shall be the duty of City Planning Commission to
<br />cause all such vuilations to be vigorously prosecuted.
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<br /> If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ording, nce iS
<br />for any reason held to be unconstitutional, void or invalid, the validity of the remain-
<br />i~g portions of this ordinance shall not be affected thereby, it being the intent of
<br />the Council of the City of Santa Aha in adoptirg this ordinance, theft no portion thereof,
<br />or provisions or re~lations cont&in~d therein shall become inoper~tive or fail by
<br />reason of any unconstitutionality or invalidity of any other portion, orovision or
<br />regulation.
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<br /> Section 18. The Board of Forestry shall forthwith commence the nreoaration of
<br />a plan which shall designate by means of a comolete mao of the city streets ~ uniform
<br />method of street tree planting, zoning certain'streets' for a certain specimen of tree
<br />of trees and shrub or shrubs, showing the distance apart of s~id trees or shrubs and
<br />the place in which each tree or shrub is to be n!anted, and the Board of Forestry shall
<br />submit this pla~ to the City Planning Com:uission for their approval and or ~aodification.
<br />After the same has been approved by the City Planning Commission, the same shall be sub-
<br />mitted to the City Council of the City of Santa Aha for modification and or adootion, by
<br />that body. Zf, and when the uniform olan of the Forestry Board in its original or
<br />modified for~w_ is adopted by the City Council, it shall become the tree ~lantmngo ' plan for
<br />the streets of the City of Santa Ana, an~ shall be strictly adhered to in all future
<br />street ?snting improvement projects and in the re~ova] and replacement of shrubs, trees
<br />and plants on streets in tho City of Santa Aha; provided, that upon recommendation by
<br />the C~ty Planning Commission, the City' Council may at any time a~end, alter, cancel, or
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