Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 27 - Recreation Places, Shade Trees and Forests
Section 2721 - Shade tree commission

(a) Establishment.--Council, by ordinance, may establish a shade tree commission and delegate to the shade tree commission the exclusive care, custody and control of shade trees and authorization to plant, transplant, remove, maintain and protect shade trees on the streets and highways in the borough.
(b) Commission authority.--The shade tree commission may make and enforce regulations for the care and protection of shade trees. No regulation may be in force until it has been approved by the council and enacted as an ordinance.
(c) Park commission.--If in any borough there exists a commission for the care of public parks, the council may, by ordinance, confer on the park commission all the powers and all the duties prescribed by this chapter for a shade tree commission.

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