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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 53-12 Permit requirements – Treating trees.">
  <section prefix="§" num="53-12" heading="Permit requirements – Treating trees.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Permit required.">No person may spray, mulch, fertilize, or otherwise treat, remove, destroy, break, cut, or trim any tree, or any part of a tree, in any street, lane, or alley without first having obtained a written permit issued by the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Recreation and Parks.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Department to direct utilities, etc.">No cutting or trimming of any tree in any street, lane, or alley in connection with the work of any other City department or of any public service corporation or other person having a right to use the street, lane, or alley may be done except in the manner directed by the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Recreation and Parks.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 45, §177</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 35, §94</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §97</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §104</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. 15-435</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
