1.18.045 Monetary penalty – Trees and vegetation on city or private property – Illegal clearing, cutting, damaging or removal – BCC 3.43.335 and LUC 20.20.900.
A. Trees and Vegetation on City Property. BCC 1.18.040(E) shall have no application to a violation of BCC 3.43.335. Instead, the monetary penalty shall be the greater of:
1. Five hundred dollars for each tree cleared, cut, damaged or removed, or for each act of clearing, cutting, damaging or removing vegetation; or
2. Triple the value of each tree cleared, cut, damaged or removed, or of the vegetation cleared, cut, damaged or removed, the value to be the replacement value as determined under the methods described in the Guide for Establishing Value of Trees and Other Plants, published by the International Society of Arboriculture, now or as hereafter amended.
B. Significant Trees on Private Property.
1. BCC 1.18.040(E) shall have no application to a violation of LUC 20.20.900.D. and E. Instead, the monetary penalty shall be the greater of:
a. Two hundred dollars for each significant tree cleared, cut, damaged or removed; or
b. The value of each significant tree cleared, cut, damaged or removed, the value to be the replacement value as determined under the methods described in the Guide for Establishing Value of Trees and Other Plants, published by the International Society of Arboriculture, now or as hereafter amended.
2. Each significant tree removed in violation of the requirements of LUC 20.20.900.D. and E. is a separate violation, subject to separate penalties. (Ord. 5664 § 1, 2006; Ord. 4247 § 1, 1991.)