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,s ORDINANCE NO. B -1559
AN ORDINANCE providing for the licensing and bonding of tree removers, requiring permits
for the removal of trees, providing penalties, and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. It Shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to
fell, cut down, or remove a tree, or trees, on the property of another, or to carry on
such tree removing business in said city, without first obtaining and having in effect
an annual tree remover's license. Such license may be issued by.the city clerk upon
payment of an anneal license fee in the sum of $50.00, payable in advance on January 1st
of each year.
Section 2. Each such licensee shall file with the city clerk a liability
insurance policy or.surety bond providing for the payment of all liability claims which
may be owning by him for damages to persons or property, in the sum of not less than
$5,000.00 for injury or death to one person, and not less than $10,000.00 for total dam-
ages caused by one accident, and not less than $5,000.00 for property damages caused by
one accident, and further conditioned to indemnify said city against liability or loss
for any damages caused by such iree removal operations.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in-
cluding licensed tree removers and owners and occupiers of property, to fell, cut down,
or remove a tree, or trees, in all cases where such tree removal might obstruct any
street, alley, sidewalk or parking strip, without first obtaining from the city building
inspector a permit so to do and paying the sum of one dollar per tree as a permit fee,
and in the event such tree removal might obstruct any street, also notifying the police
department and fire department of said city as to the location thereof and the approxi-
mate time of felling the same, and without first topping such tree before felling the :
same. The holder of such permit shall, after removal of the tree, sweep the adjacent
street and gutter and leave the same in a clean condition and shall so far as practicable
remove'all portions of such tree.
Section 4. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the
application of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.
Section 5. Any person sho shall violate or fail to comply with any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation or
failure to comply, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding three hundred N300.00) dollars, or
• by imprisonment in the city jail for a term not exceeding niney (90) days, or both such
fine and imprisonment.
Section 6. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety and an emergency is declared to exist,
and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approv-
al, and publication, as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 10th day of May,
1954.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN (S E A L) G. W. BURNS
City Clerk Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of Ordinance
No. B -1559 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing for the licensing and bonding of tree remov-
ers, requiring permits for the removal of trees, providing penalties, and declaring an
emergency." as passed this 10th day of May, 1954 and that same has been published as
required by law.
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