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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
City Trees - Protective Measures
FOR the purpose of extending certain laws for the protection of trees along public ways to apply also to trees in parks, squares, and other public places; prohibiting excessive or unnecessary cutting, trimming, or pruning of public trees; authorizing the City Arborist to adjudicate complaints of unauthorized or improper treatment of public trees and to impose civil penalties and remedies for violations; redefining certain terms; increasing certain criminal penalties; conforming agency references to reflect reallocations established by prior enactments; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related language; and generally relating to trees, shrubs, and other plants in the public ways and in the parks, squares, and other public places of the City.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 7 - Natural Resources
Section(s) 53-1 to 53-26, to be under the amended subtitle designation,
"Subtitle 53. City Trees"
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
Baltimore City Code
Article 7. Natural Resources
Division V: City Parks and Trees
Subtitle 53. CITY Trees [Along City Streets, etc.]
PART I. DEFINITIONS; GEN...
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