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With regard to any tree on public property, except as provided in the adopted standards and these sections, no person shall:

(1) Break, injure, mutilate, burn, kill, remove or destroy any tree;

(2) Permit any leak to exist in any gas pipe or main within the root zone of any tree;

(3) Permit any toxic chemical, solid or liquid, to pass, drain or be emptied on or about any tree;

(4) Permit any wire designed to carry electrical current to be attached to any tree;

(5) Excavate any tunnel, ditch or trench, or lay any driveway, sidewalk or pavement through or across the root zone of any tree;

(6) Attach any wire, rope, cable, poster, sign or nail or other fastener to any tree;

(7) Place, deposit or store any stone, brick, sand, earth or other material as to damage any tree that is maintained in accordance with the adopted standards;

(8) Move any building or other large object along any street in such a manner as to damage any tree that is maintained in accordance with the adopted standards;

(9) Prevent, delay or interfere with the Manager or his agents in the planting, maintenance or removal of any tree.

[Added Sec. 1, Ord. No. 8026, Feb. 1, 1996.]