New York Laws
Title 11 - Forest Fire Control
9-1113 - Top Lopping Evergreen Trees.

Every person who shall, within any of the fire towns or within any
fire district or part thereof when so designated by department
regulation, fell or cause to be felled or permit to be felled any
evergreen tree for sale or other purposes or engage in salvaging any
blown down evergreen tree shall cut off or cause to be cut off from the
tree at the time of felling or salvaging the tree, unless otherwise
authorized by the department before the trees are felled or salvaged,
all the limbs thereof up to a point where the trunk of the tree has a
longest diameter which does not exceed three inches, unless the tree be
felled or salvaged for use with the limbs thereon.

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