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ORDINANCE D-1757-05
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARMEL, INDIANA,
AMENDING ORDINANCE D-1091, SECTIONS 2-22 AND 6-64 OF THE CARMEL CITY
CODE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE CARMEL STREET TREE COMMITTEE TO
CARMEL URBAN FORESTRY COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the City of Carmel, Indiana, maintains and operates a Department of
Community Services (DOCS); and,
WHEREAS, the DOCS advises the Carmel Clay Plan Commission on issues and concerns
regarding new residential subdivisions and other projects; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Carmel employs an urban forester in DOCS; and,
WHEREAS, the forester has the power to promulgate and enforce regulations and
specifications concerning the planting, trimming, maintenance and removal of trees, shrubs and
. other plants upon the right-of way of any street or alley in the City; and
WHEREAS, the Carmel City Urban Forester works with an advisory committee established
on September 1, 1994 as the Carmel Street Tree Committee as ordained by Section 2-22 in
Ordinance D-1091; and
WHEREAS, the projects supervised by the Carmel Street Tree Committee and Camael
Urban Forester include education (for trees on public and private properties), monetary grants, the.
plantings of trees in rights-of-way and neighborhoods (public property) and Carmel's TREE CITY
USA designation by the National Arbor Day Foundation; and
WHEREAS, the composition, organization and duties will not be changed; though the
scope of the committee will be better described by renaming the committee.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Common Council of the City of
Carmel, Indiana that;
Section I:
a.
Amend § 2-22 Street Tree Committee.to read:
Carmel Urban Forestry Committee
.b.
Amend Section 6-64 Street Tree Committee to read:
Carmel Urban Forestry Committee
For the purpose of renaming the Carmel Street Tree Committee as the Carmel Urban Forestry
Committee, it is hereby declared that the contents of this Ordinance shall Constitute an amendment
of the Carmel Ordinance No. D-1091, 8-1-94.
Section II: All prior Ordinances or parts thereof inconsistent with any provision of this Ordinance
are hereby repealed.
Section III: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and signing
by the Mayor.
PASSED By The Common Council Of The City Of Carmel, Indiana, this day of
~x3-~ ,2005, by a vote of ~-~ ayes and C TM) nays.
COMMON/~COUNCIL FOR~F~
~ald E. Carter, Xt Large'
· Ma~.'
Richard L.,
/~.~istrict 3
1~,.~ L~rge
of the City of Carmel, Indiana this i~,'tA' day of
,2005, at I 1:12~
· Approved by me, Mayor of the City of Carmel, Indiana, this i'~t~day of
~~ , ,2005, at
Ja~nard, Mayor
ATTEST:.
Di~easurer
Prepared by: Douglas Haney, esq..
Carmel City Hall
One Civic Square
· Carmel, IN 46032