2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VIL - Village
Article 17 - (17-1700 - 17-1735) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO A VILLAGE EMBRACING THE ENTIRE TERRITORY OF A TOWN
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.