City of Hackensack, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 162 Trees
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Offices
- Ch 3A Hackensack Municipal Alliance
- Ch 3B Stigma Free Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Board of Education
- Ch 5 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 6 Building, Housing and Land Use Department
- Ch 7 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 9 Charges Against City Employees
- Ch 11 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Communications Department
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 13A Condominium, Cooperative and Multi-Unit Rental Buildings Advisory Board
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Economic Development Commission
- Ch 17 Employment
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission and Green Team
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Department
- Ch 24 Housing Authority
- Ch 24A Information Technology Department
- Ch 25 Insurance Fund
- Ch 26 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 27 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Parking System, Public
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Records, Public
- Ch 36 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 36A Cultural Arts, Department of
- Ch 37 Rules of Order
- Ch 38 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 40 Seal
- Ch 41 Senior Citizen Advisory Board
- Ch 42 Shade Tree Advisory Committee
- Ch 43 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 44 Abandoned and Nuisance Properties
- Ch 45 Advertising Materials
- Ch 45A Affordable Housing
- Ch 46 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 47 Alarm Devices
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Amusement Machines, Automatic
- Ch 52 Animals
- Ch 54 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 56 Automobile Driving Schools
- Ch 58 Automobile Sales, Used
- Ch 60 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 63 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Sleds
- Ch 64 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 66 Boarding and Rooming Houses; Nursing Homes
- Ch 67 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing, Permanent Cosmetics and Tattooing
- Ch 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 69 Cannabis Businesses
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 72 Checks, Fraudulent and Returned
- Ch 74 Child-Care Facilities
- Ch 75 Community Garden
- Ch 76 Drug and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 78 Dry-Cleaning Establishments and Laundries
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Exterminators; Fumigation; Vermin Control
- Ch 86 Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 88 Fire Prevention
- Ch 89 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 90 Food and Drink
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Gardeners, Landscapers, Horticulturists, and Snow Removal Business
- Ch 95 Graffiti
- Ch 96 Guarantees and Bonds
- Ch 97 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 98 Heating and Hot Water
- Ch 99 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 100 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 101 Insurance
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Secondhand
- Ch 104 Junkyards and Storage Yards
- Ch 106 Library
- Ch 107 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 108 Limousine Services
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 110 Mechanical Code
- Ch 111 Massage Establishments
- Ch 112 Noise
- Ch 114 Nuisances
- Ch 115 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 116 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 117 Parks
- Ch 119 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 121 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Poolrooms
- Ch 127 Private Property, Parking on
- Ch 129 Public Bathing Places
- Ch 132 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Ch 133 Relocation of Displaced Tenants
- Ch 134 Rent Stabilization
- Ch 138 Sales, Special
- Ch 140 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 141 Sewers
- Ch 143 Shopping Carts
- Ch 145 Smoke Emission
- Ch 146 Soil Removal
- Ch 147 Special Improvement District
- Ch 148 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Taxation
- Ch 155 Taxicabs
- Ch 158 Tourist Lodges and Camps
- Ch 159 Towers and Wreckers
- Ch 159A Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 160 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 162 Trees
- § 162-1 Definitions.
- § 162-2 Prohibited acts.
- § 162-3 Certain trees and other vegetation prohibited in certain areas.
- § 162-4 Repealer.
- § 162-5 When effective.
- Ch 165 Truck and Bus Terminals
- Ch 166 Uniform Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 168 Vehicles and Property, Abandoned
- Ch 170 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 173 Waterfront Cleanup Program
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Ch 176 Newsracks
- Appendix
- Ch A180 Building Lines
- Ch A181 Franchises
- Ch A182 9-1-1 Telephone System
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Hackensack 4-18-1988 by Ord. No. 7-88.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded
former Ch. 162, Trees, adopted 4-4-1983 by Ord. No. 9-83.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any tree or shrub located on public property or in the public
right-of-way in front of any established lot or parcel in the city.
A.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership,
association, corporation, public utility or other entity to:
(1)Â
Cut, remove, deface or attach wires, ropes or signs
to any shade tree of the City of Hackensack without first having obtained
permission from the City Manager of the City of Hackensack.
(2)Â
Climb upon any shade tree within the city.
(3)Â
Excavate in or around a shade tree in such a manner
as to damage a main root of a shade tree without first having obtained
permission from the City Manager of the City of Hackensack.
(4)Â
Close in or obstruct any open space provided in a
sidewalk or street area for the base of a shade tree to permit the
access of water to the roots of the tree, trim the limbs of any shade
tree or remove any supporting posts, braces or wire harnesses, without
first having obtained permission of the City Manager of the City of
Hackensack.
(5)Â
Pile any cement, mortar, petroleum by-product or other
caustic substance without six feet of the base of a shade tree.
(6)Â
Interfere with employees of the City of Hackensack
or any of its agents engaged in the planting, cultivating, pruning,
spraying or removal of any shade tree.
(7)Â
Plant a shade tree without first having obtained permission
from the City Manager of the City of Hackensack.
B.Â
The foregoing regulatory provisions notwithstanding,
the maintenance of a shade tree shall be the sole responsibility of
the owner of the property adjacent to such public right-of-way or
easement.
[Added 5-7-1990 by Ord. No. 10-90]
[Amended 9-6-2022 by Ord.
No. 41-2022]
No person shall plant any poplar trees (populus spp.), catalpa
trees (catalpa spp.), or willow trees (salix spp.) in any public street
or public place, nor shall any person plant any tree of the species
aforesaid within 50 feet of any public street or public place or of
any sewer running through any private street or private property.
Effective October 1, 2022, no person shall sell, plant or knowingly
propagate within the City the following invasive species of vegetation:
1) running bamboo known as "phyllostachys aureosulcata," or any bamboo
of such genus; 2) "tree of heaven" known as "ailanthus altissima"
and 3) "Bradford pear" known as "pyrus calleryana." This includes
the replanting or replacing of existing vegetation after it has died
or has been removed.
All other ordinances pertaining to the regulation,
planting and care of shade trees located in public easement areas
are hereby repealed.
This chapter shall take effect 10 days after
publication of notice of final adoption as provided by law.
