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ORDINANCE NO 1917
RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF TREES FROM THE PARKING ON STREETS OR
ALLEYS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE
CITY OF FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
BE IT ORDAIiED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person, company or
corporation to remove any tree or trees growing on the parking
along and upon any street, avenue, or in any alley or on public
grounds within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins,
without first having procured a permit therefor from the Com-
missioner of Public works as hereinafter provided, and provided
further that the right is hereby reserved in the City Council to
order the removal from any parking, alley or pubic grounds in
said City any tree or trees when in its judgment the public health,
safety and welfare of the city require it
Section 2 Any person, company or corporation desiring to
remove any tree or trees from the parking along or upon any street,
or upon any alley or public ground in front of a lot or lots owned
by the applicant, within the corporate limits of the City of Fort
Collins, shall first make application therefor in writing to the
Commissioner of Public Works, describing therein the location of
the tree or trees sought to be removed, a description of the lot
or lots, with the block number, in front of which said trees are
located, and which said lots are owned by the applicant, the kind
of tree or trees to be removed and the reason therefor, which said
application shall be duly signed by the owner of the lot or lots,
or his or its duly authorized agent, If said application shall
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be approved by the Commissioner of Public Works a permit shall be
issued by him to the applicant upon a printed form prescribed for
said purpose, upon the express condition that the applicant will
save the City of Fort Collins harmless on account of any damages
that may be caused or result to said city or any person arising
out of any negligence in the removal of such tree or trees, and
that the applicant will cause the stump and roots to be removed
and restore the parking, alley or public ground to its former
condition as it existed prior to such removal, and upon the further
condition that the right is reserved to the City of Fort Collins
to set or cause to be set in such parking, alley or public grounds,
trees, to be designated as to kind, and furnished by it in place
of said trees so removed, and in compliance with the terms and
provisima of Ordinance No 10, 1914 Relating to Sidewalks and
Parking
Section 3 If such application should be disapproved and
refused by the Commissioner of Works, the applicant shall have the
right of appeal to the City Council, and the City Council shall
hear and determine all matters in connection with said application
after due notice to all parties concerned, and its determinatL&on
shall be final and binding respecting said application
Section 4 Any person company or corporation who shall
violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than five Dollars
($5) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), and costs of proceeding
Sec 5 All ordinances or pasts of ordinances in conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed, but any cause or causes of action
which may have accrued in favor of the City of Fort Collins prior
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to the taking effect of this ordinance shall be prosecuted to
the same effect as if no repeal had been made
Introduced, read first time and ordered published at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on the 30th day of
April, A D 1917
Passed and adopted this 210� day of May, A D 1917
Commissioner of Safety and Ex
Offibcio Mayor
ATTEST
(Lay1 /4vl,
City Clerz
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STATE OF COLORADO, )
as
COUNTY OF LARIMER )
I, Ray Baxter, City Clerk of the City of
Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing
ordinance consisting of five (5) sections duly proposed and
read at length at a meeting of the City Council held on the 30th
day of April, A D 1917, was duly ordered by Aye and Nay vote
to be published in the Fort Collins Courier, a daily newspaper
of the City of Fort Collins in accordance with the provisions
of Section 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, that thereafter,
and on-to-wit, the 1/-/),�day of May, A D 1917, at a regular
meeting of the City Council, said ordinance came before said
Council on its final passage, a period of more than ten days having
elapsed since the pbblication as set forth and that said ordinance,
was upon second reading adopted as an ordinance, and thereafter
and on, to-wit, the day of May, 1917, said Ordinance No
as finally passed and adopted was duly published in the Fort
Collins Courier a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort
Collins Colorado
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ;
day of May, A D 1917
City Clerk