§ 301-8. Contact with electrical wires or conductors.

It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, authorize or procure a wire or other conductor charged with electricity to come into contact with any tree, plant or shrub in or upon any public highway or public place in such manner as may injure or abrade or shall destroy or kill such tree, plant or shrub. Every person shall, when and if the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works determines it to be necessary in order to prune or cut down any tree growing in or upon a public highway or public place, temporarily remove any wire or wires or cut off the electricity within 24 hours after service upon the owner of such wire or wires, or his or its agents, of a written notice signed by said Commissioner to remove such wires or cut off such electricity.

Amended 4-15-1986 by Ord. No. 87-1986