People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — ORDINANCE NO. 24. [ARTICLE]

ORDINANCE NO. 24.

Shade Trees. An Ordinance Providing for the trimming of shade trees in the City of Kensselaer, Indiana, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof. (Ordained and established June 22. 1896.) Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana: That any person owning or controlling shade trees in front of property bordering on any street in said city, whereon lamp posts are situated, are hereby required to keep the lower branches of said trees trimmed off to such height as will in no wi«e interfere or obstruct the light from said lamp. Sec. 2. Any person failing or refusing to trim said trees, as in the first section of this ordinance provided, the same shall be done by order of the Council of -said City, the expense of which shall be a lien on such property and collected in the same manner as street improvements. Sec. 3* It shall be apd is hereby made the duty of the City Marshal of said city to infprm the said Council of the failure on the part of any such person to comply with the provisions of the first section of this ordinance at their first regular meeting after said Marshal has any knowledge thereof. Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.