Isleton Municipal Code Ch. 8.16 Planting, Preservation and Protection of Trees

The word "person" whenever used in this chapter, shall be deemed to include corporations, partnerships and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of this state.

No person or corporation shall cut, break, trim, remove, or in any way injure or deface the tree, shrubs, plants, tree posts or tree guards, in or upon any of the public highways of or within the city. Any person desiring to cut, break, trim or remove any shade tree or plant in or on any public highway of the city, may apply to the commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks of said city for a written permit therefor, and upon such permit being granted, may climb, cut, break, trim, or remove any tree or trees mentioned in such permit in accordance with the terms thereof; provided that when at any time hereafter, the limbs or branches of any trees grown on any land in the city extend over or into any of the public highways or alleys of or in said city and interfere with the free and uninterrupted use of such highways for any lawful purpose, the commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks may trim or detach, or cause to be trimmed or detached from any such trees, such part of such limbs or branches as extend into such highway. And if such limbs or branches extending are required to be cut off or detached for any other purpose than for ordinary travel on the surface of the highway, the expense of detaching or cutting off such projecting limbs or branches shall be defrayed by the person, firm or corporation whose use of such highway shall require the detaching or trimming of such limbs as project into the highway, and at all times the detaching or trimming of such limbs or branches projecting into a highway shall be done under the direction and supervision of the commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks, and no limbs or branches so protecting into a highway shall be detached or trimmed by person without the written permission of the commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks. The commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks shall have power and authority to direct the owner, or authorized agent of such owner, of property upon which any trees are located which trees or any of the limbs thereof project into, over or upon a highway, to cut and trim such tree or trees under the direction of such commissioner, and if such owner, or authorized agent of said property does not comply with such direction of said commissioner within a reasonable time, said commissioner shall proceed to cut and trim such tree or trees so projecting, as aforesaid, in a proper and suitable manner.

No persons shall, without the written permit of the commissioner of streets, sidewalks and parks of the city, attach or keep attached to a tree or plant, in a public highway, or to the guard or stake intended for the protection of such a tree or plant, a rope, wire, sign, placard, or any device.

In the erection or repair of a building or structure, the owner thereof shall place such guards around all nearby trees on the public highways as shall effectually prevent injury to them.

No person or corporation shall in any way interfere, or cause or permit any person to interfere with said commissioner or his employees in and about the planting, mulching, pruning, spraying, treating, or removing of any tree or plant in the public highways of or in said city, or in the removing of stone, cement or other sidewalk, or stone, cement or other substance, about the trunk of any tree or plant in any such public highway of or in said city.

Any person, persons, or corporation violating any of the provisions contained in this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $5.00, nor more than $100.00, or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days in the county jail of the County of Sacramento, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Every violation by the same person of any provisions of this chapter which occurs against or continues on any day or days succeeding the first violation thereof, shall constitute an additional violation for each of such succeeding days.