N.Y. Village Law § 17-1732: Trees and shrubs and shade tree commission

§ 17-1732 Trees and shrubs and shade tree commission. In any such

village the board of trustees may annually raise by taxation and

appropriate and expend for planting, care and preservation of trees and

shrubs in and upon the public highways and public places thereof a sum

not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, except that the village of

Scarsdale may raise by taxation and expend for the purposes of this

section such sum as may be necessary and appropriate therefor; and in

any such village the board of trustees may regulate the planting,

maintenance, protection and control of shade trees upon the public

highways or public places of such village, and for that purpose shall

have power to enact, amend and repeal an ordinance or ordinances,

providing for the appointment of a shade tree commission (which may be

the village planning commission) and for the planting, care,

preservation, maintenance, protection and control of shade trees and

shrubs upon the public highways or public places of such village, and

for the enforcement thereof by fines and penalties. Every such ordinance

shall provide that the members of such shade tree commission serve

without compensation.