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At 6 V 4J (k) "Weeds" as used herein shall be construed to include any form of vegetation not a. cultivated garden tract or lawn and growing to a height of six (6) inches or more; also any form of obnoxious or harmful or dangerous plant life. SECTION 3. UNIESS. AUTHORIZED BY PERMIT, no person shall: (a) Plant, remove, top, or in may way injure or mutilate any street tree. (b) Fasten any sign, wire, or injurious material to any street tree. (c) Excavate any ditch m tunnel, or place concrete or other pavement within a distance of ten (10) feet of the center of the trunk of any street tree. SECTION 4. P=TITS (a) Application: Any person desiring to do any of the work described in Section 3 hereof may apply for a permit so to do. The applicant shall state the nature of the work and the location where it will be done. (b) Issuance: A permit shall be issued authorizing so much of the work as: (1) Will not create, continue, or aggravate any hazardous condition, or public nuisance; (2) Will not prevent or interfere with the growth, location or planting of approved street trees; City. (3) Is consistent with the planting plan being followed by the SECTION 5. PUBLIC NUISANCES: The following are, for the purposes hereof, defined to be public nuisances: (a) Any dead, diseased, infested, or dying tree in any street; or on any private property so near to any street tree as to consti- tute a danger to street trees, or streets, or portions thereof. (b) Any tree or shrub on any private property or in any street, Of a type or species apt to destroN ;mpair or otherwise interfere with any street improvements, sidewalks, curbs, approved street trees, gutters, sewers, other public improvements,including utility mains or services. (c) Within the thirty (30) foot triangle of private property at the intersection on any streets improved for vehicular traffic, any tree limb, shrub gr plant regehing a height more than three feet above the street center adjacent thereto, except tree trunks having no limbs lower than nine (9) `set above street center. (d) Vines or climbing plants growing into or over any street tree; or any public hydrant, pole or electrolier. (e) Existence of any tree within the City Limits that is in- fested, infected or in danger of becoming infested or infected with objectionable insects, scale, fungus or growth injurious to trees. - 2 -