Permits—Required to prune, plant or remove from public land

It shall be unlawful for any person to trim or prune any tree, shrub, or plant or to remove any tree, shrub, or plant from any dedicated street, alley, highway, public right-of-way, or easement, public land lying between property lines on either side of a public street, highway, alley, public parking strip, public street, sidewalk or divider, public median strip or planting strip or other land or public place owned by the city without first applying for and obtaining a permit from the director of public works or authorized representative.

(Code 1967, § 59-2; Code 1980, § 59-22; Ord. No. 13087, § 2, 9-10-09; Ord. No. 13676, § 2, 4-27-17)

Case Law reference— In suit against city for injuries sustained from electric shock incurred while pruning trees on a city right-of-way for a private individual, where neither the injured party nor his/her employer had acquired a permit as required and where both the injured party and his/her employer knew a permit was required, the injured party was a trespasser as to the city, to whom the city owed no greater duty than to avoid wilful and wanton conduct and, upon discovery of his/her presence, to give warning of known dangers not open to ordinary observation. Norris v. City of Miami, 367 So. 2d 1038.