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Farmville  View whole ordinance
Sec. 27-3. Authority and duties. (a) There is hereby created and established a tree board for the town, which shall consist of five (5) members and shall be appointed by the town council. Members shall serve without compensation. The town manager and horticulturist will serve on the tree board as ex-officio members. (b) The tree board shall choose its own officers, develop its own operating guidelines, and keep minutes of its meetings. Tree board meetings will not be pre-set but rather meetings will be scheduled on an as needed basis at the request of a board member or by the town manager or town horticulturist. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The tree board shall have no executive authority, its powers being strictly advisory. (c) The tree board, in collaboration with the town manager and the town horticulturist, shall study, investigate and develop recommendations for the care, preservation, pruning, planting, replanting and removal of trees and shrubs in parks, along streets and in other publicly owned places. The tree board, through various public outreach and educational programs, will encourage private landowners to enhance their property along street frontage and in public use area such as parking lots. (Ord. No. 102, 6-15-2006) Sec. 27-4. Term of office of tree board. Tree board members shall serve a three-year term with the following exception. The first appointed board shall serve terms as follows: two (2) shall serve two (2) years, two (2) shall serve three (3) years, and one (1) shall serve four (4) years. (Ord. No. 102, 6-15-2006) Sec. 27-16. Review. The town council shall review recommendations made by the town's tree board and endorse them as is or amend them as they deem necessary. (Ord. No. 102, 6-15-2006) Sec. 27-14. Enforcement. The town manager and his designee shall have the power to enforce rules, regulations, and specifications concerning the trimming, spraying, removal, planting, pruning and protection of trees, shrubs, and other plants as set forth in this chapter. (Ord. No. 102, 6-15-2006)

Martinsville  View whole ordinance
II. AUTHORITY There is hereby created and established a City Tree Board for the City of Martinsville, which shall consist of five members and shall be appointed by the City Council. Members shall serve without compensation. III. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Board, in collaboration with the City Manager and Superintendent of Schools or their designees, shall consider, investigate, make findings, reports, and recommendations regarding any special matter coming within the scope of its work. It shall be the routine responsibility of the Board to study, investigate, and develop recommendations for the care, preservation, pruning, planting, replanting, removal or disposition of trees and shrubs in parks, along streets and in other publicly owned areas. IV. TERM OF OFFICE The term of the five persons appointed by City Council shall be three years, except that the term of one member appointed to the first board shall be for one year and the term of two members of the first board shall be for two years. In the event a vacancy should occur during the term of any member, his/her successor shall be appointed for the un-expired portion of the term. All persons appointed to the Board shall be governed by the policy for appointments to boards and commissions adopted by City Council. V. OPERATION The Tree Board shall choose its own officers, make its own rules and regulations and keep minutes of its meetings. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.VIII. LICENSING It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of planting, cutting, trimming, pruning, removing, spraying, or to otherwise treat trees, shrubs or vines on public property within the City without first producing evidence of a City of Martinsville business license. IX. INSURANCE All contractors in the business of planting, cutting, trimming, pruning, removing, spraying, and otherwise treating trees, shrubs or vines on public property within the City shall show proof of liability insurance. This certificate of insurance shall be in the amount as required by the responsible City department. This coverage shall be for bodily injury or death and property damage, indemnifying the City or any person injured or damages resulting from the pursuit of such endeavors, as herein described.

Norfolk  View whole ordinance
Sec. 45-3. Bureau of parks and forestry. The bureau of parks and forestry, in addition to the responsibilities and authorities vested in it by chapter 25.2 of this Code, shall have the management, control and care of the area between the street curbing and the walkway, and of all trees and shrubbery on the streets, avenues and public grounds of the city, shall direct and regulate planting, transplanting, pruning, removal, care and protection of all shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery to be planted and cultivated, determining species and distances for such planting, and shall have all other necessary and convenient powers incident to the conduct of its duties. (Ord. No. 41,728, § 1, 2-15-05) Sec. 45-4. Duties of the city forester. Under the supervision and direction of the director and the superintendent of parks and forestry, the city forester shall have the following responsibilities: (a) To direct a comprehensive municipal forestry program encompassing natural resource conservation, preventative, corrective and routine maintenance, and reforestation components. (b) To administer the tree ordinance and street tree management plan and perform whatever acts are necessary including the planting, maintenance, treatment and protection of trees, and the removal of dead, dying, diseased, damaged or hazardous trees, including trees which by virtue of their type, form, condition, size, location, or site conditions are predisposed to structural failure, or otherwise undesirable trees, shrubs and other vegetation located on city-owned property; and to ensure that all trees, shrubs and other vegetation located on city property conform with the tree ordinance, street tree management plan, and other controlling arboricultural specifications and standards. (c) To establish and periodically review and revise, as necessary, controlling arboricultural specifications and standards, street tree planting and location standards, tree protection notes and details, and policies or practices to professionally manage the city's tree population and carry out the expressed intent of this article. (d) To direct the development and operation of a municipal nursery. (e) Administer a vegetated buffer protection program within the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Overlay District. (f) To propose annual budget requirements and staffing and equipment requirements as deemed necessary to carry out the expressed purpose and intent of this article and street tree management plan. (g) To establish and maintain a public relations program, including annual Arbor Day observations, Tree City USA certification, and other public relations programs in furtherance of the expressed purpose and intent of this article and the street management plan. (Ord. No. 41,728, § 1, 2-15-05) Sec. 45-5. Interference with bureau of parks and forestry. No person shall, in anywise, interfere with, hinder, prevent or delay or cause or permit any person to interfere with, hinder, prevent or delay the bureau of parks and forestry, or its employees, in the enforcement of this chapter, or in and about the planting, mulching, pruning, spraying, treating or removing of any tree in the public streets, parks, schools, city-owned cemeteries, or other city-owned property, or in the removing of stone, cement or other sidewalks, or stone, cement or other substances about the trunk of any tree in any street, or in cultivating, seeding and caring for the area between the street curbing and the walkway in any sidewalk of the city. (Ord. No. 41,728, § 1, 2-15-05)

Waynesboro  View whole ordinance
Sec. 90-27. Master street tree plan. (a) The city horticulturist shall have the authority to formulate and administer a master street tree plan. The master street tree plan shall specify the species of trees to be planted on each of the streets or other public sites of the city. From and after the effective date of the master street tree plan or any amendment thereof, all planting shall conform thereto. (b) The horticulturist shall consider all existing and future utility and environmental factors when recommending a specific species for each of the streets and other public sites of the city. (c) The horticulturist shall have the authority to amend or add to the master street tree plan at any time that circumstances make it advisable. (Code 1964, § 29-2) Sec. 90-35. Review by city manager. The city manager shall have the right to review the conduct, acts and decisions of the city horticulturist. Any person may appeal from any ruling or order of the city horticulturist to the city manager who may hear the matter and make the final decision. (Code 1964, § 29-10) Cross reference(s)--City manager, § 2-166 et seq.

Winchester  View whole ordinance
DIVISION 2. TREE COMMISSION SECTION 30-32. CREATED; COMPOSITION; APPOINTMENT AND TERMS OF MEMBERS; FILLING VACANCIES. (a) There is hereby created a tree commission, to be composed of seven (7) qualified voters of the City elected by the council. Initially, three (3) of the members shall be elected to serve until December 31,1966, two (2) to serve until December 31, 1968, and two (2) to serve until December 31, 1983. Thereafter all members shall serve for a term of four (4) years or until their successors take office. (b) Vacancies occurring on the tree commission otherwise than through the expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term by the election of council. (Code 1959, §19-4; Ord. No. 001-80, 1-8-80) SECTION 30-33. MEMBERS NOT COMPENSATED. All members of the tree commission shall serve without compensation (Code 1959, §19-4; Ord. No. 001-80, 01-08-80) SECTION 30-34. ORGANIZATION; ELECTION OF OFFICERS; QUORUM. The members of the tree commission shall, immediately after their appointment, meet and organize. They shall elect a chairman, a vice-chairman and such other officers as they may deem necessary. A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (Code 1959, §19-5) SECTION 30-35. POWERS. The tree commission, at the request of the city manager or of the Council, shall provide advice and expertise regarding the trees now standing or hereafter planted on the streets, parks, public places and public grounds of the City. It shall have the duty to render advice and assistance to the city manager, at his request, as to the planting, trimming and removing of such trees and to provide advice and expertise to the city manager, at his request, as to the issuance of permits therefor. (Code 1959, §19-6;Ord. No. 020-2001, 5-8-2001) SECTION 30-36. RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL. The tree commission shall, on or before March 1 st of each year, recommend to the council such regulations as may be necessary for the proper preservation and protection of trees and the improvement of any public park, public place or public grounds, to specifically include recommendations for planting and maintenance of such trees. (Code 1959, §19-7; Ord. No. 020-2001, 5-8-2001) SECTION 30-37. INTERFERING WITH COMMISSION. It shall be unlawful for any person in any way to interfere, or cause any person to interfere, with the tree commission, its agents or employees while planting, spraying, removing or otherwise caring for and protecting any tree in any street, park, public place or grounds. (Code 1959, §19-13)