Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 67325. Saving trees and shrubbery

(a) The board of supervisors or its agents shall not remove any shrub or tree growing within the right-of-way of any township road or street except those shrubs and trees the board of supervisors finds to constitute a hazardous or dangerous condition to the use of the highway or those which impair the use or maintenance of the public road or street.  No tree having a trunk diameter in excess of six inches shall be removed without notice of the proposed removal having first been given to the abutting property owner.  The township supervisors shall determine by resolution the form of notice to property owners.

(b) All logs, cordwood, branch wood or other forms of wood derived from the destruction or removal of any trees growing along the highways shall be surrendered to and remain the property of the abutting owners.

(c) The board of supervisors may clear out brush and other refuse along the sides of the road to the legal width thereof.  All clearing and removal of brush and refuse shall be confined to growth that is within the right-of-way and to the removal of branches that in any way interfere with public travel.  No other injury by fire, cutting, abrasion or otherwise shall be done to the standing timber.

(d) Any person who violates the provisions of this section commits a summary offense.  All fines shall be paid into the general township fund.

(e) Nothing in this section prevents the board of supervisors or roadmasters or other persons in their employ from removing roadside trees which may be thrown down by wind or lodged in a position as to be a menace to public travel or which, by reason of any other cause, may become a source of danger to the public.