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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 53-11 Permit requirements – Planting trees.">
  <section prefix="§" num="53-11" heading="Permit requirements – Planting trees.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Permit required.">No person may plant any tree in any street, lane, or alley without:<para num="(1)">first having obtained a written permit issued by the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Recreation and Parks, setting forth the conditions under which trees will be planted, including their kind and variety; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">in all respects complying with the conditions of the permit.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Court-ordered plantings.">Any person determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have unlawfully removed or destroyed a tree in any street, lane, or alley and required to replace the tree as directed by such court shall be granted a permit for its replacement as provided in this section.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 35, §176</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 35, §93</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §96</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §§103, 104A</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 12-154</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 46-396</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-576</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
