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CITY OF NOR?"OLMSTED ? ORDINANCE 13?r 85-126 PAGE TWO (h) "Public trees" shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street or any public place. Section 950.02. Duties and Powers of City Forester. The City Forester shall be vested with the following duties and powers: (a) to enforce or cause to be enforced the provisions of this Ordinance. (b) to enforce arboricultural specification and standards of practice generally accepted by the Arboriculture trade, which shall govern the selection, planting, maintenance, production and removal of public trees and utilization of wood and forest products produced in the course of operation. (c) To issue orders and permits for planting, maintenance, protection and removal of public trees. Section 950.03. Permits required. (a) No person shall plant or remove any public tree in a treelawn or other public place without first procuring a permit from the City Forester. The person receiving the permit shall abide by Arboricultural Specification and Standards of practice generally accepted by the Arborculture trade. (b) No person shall make any excavation, place any fill, compact soil, or construct any building, structure, street, sidewalk, driveway, pavement or public utility within the dripline of any public tree without first obtaining a permit for such work. As condition of issuing such permit, the City Forester shall require that the work be done in accordance with such generally accepted arboricultural methods as may be necessary to protect the vitality of such trees. (c) Application for permits must be made at the office of the City Forester no less than 5 days in advance of the time the work is to be done. In case of emergency, the City Forester may waive this requirement. There shall be no cost for such permits. (d) All departments of the Ctiy shall be exempt from these permits provisions subject only to the notification of City Forester of any construction project that will affect any public trees. Section 950.04. Protection of Trees. Except as authorized by permit issued by the City Forester: (a) In the erection, alteration, or repair of any building, structure or other work, the owner, his agent, or individual contractor shall take all measures necessary to prevent injury to public trees. (b) No person shall deposit, place, store, or maintain upon any treelawn or public place any stone, brick sand, concrete or other materials which may impede the free passage of water, air or nutrients to the roots of any public tree. (c) No person shall intentionally damage, cut, carve, transplant or remove any public tree; attach a rope, wire, nails, advertising, poster, or other devices to any :p.ublic tree; allow any gaseous, liquid or solid substance which is harmful to such public trees to come in contact with them; or set fire or permit any fire