New York Consolidated Laws, Village Law - VIL § 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.