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approved by the State Forester; and for his services in examining conditions
when permits are applied for under Section 1 H of this sub-title, issuing
permits, and supervising the work authorized by such permits, he shall be
paid by the person or corporation applying for this permit. The rates to be
paid under this Section shall be determined by the State Board of Forestry.

An. Code, sec. 15H. 1914, ch. 824. 1916, ch. 548.

23. Any person or persons who may desire to cut down or trim any
roadside tree shall make application to the State Board of Forestry for a
permit; except in the two following cases, (1) that where trees are uprooted
or branches of trees broken in such manner that they shall come in contact
with telephone, telegraph, electric light or other wires carrying electric
current, or where such trees or branches shall endanger persons or property,
such trees or branches of trees as the case may be, may be removed in such
an emergency without first obtaining a permit from the State Board of
Forestry, and (2) that trees standing within the right-of-way of unimproved
public roads which have not been surfaced with either stone, shell, gravel,
concrete, brick, asphalt or other improved surface may be cut down and
removed by the abutting land owner for his own use without first obtaining
a permit.

Any person or persons who shall cut down, trim, mutilate or in any
manner injure any roadside tree, except as provided for in this section,
without a permit from the State Board of Forestry or its duly authorized
representative shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall
be punishable by a fine of not less than five dollars or more than fifty dollars
for each offense, which fine shall be payable to the State Board of Forestry
for the purposes described in this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 151. 1914, ch. 824. 1922, ch. 436.

24. Any person or corporation who in any manner, paints, puts or fixes
any advertisement, sign, notice or other writing or printing other than
notices posted in pursuance of law, on or to any stone, tree, fence, stump,
pole, building or other structure which is in or upon the public highway
or which is on the property of another, without first obtaining the written
consent of such owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be punishable by fine of not more than $10.00, which fine shall
be payable to the State Board of Forestry for the purposes described in this
section; provided, however, that the State Roads Commission shall have
authority at any time to grant to any person or corporation the right to
place advertisements along or upon the public highways of the State, said
advertisement, however, to be used only in conjunction with direction or
danger signals, and subject to such limitations and restrictions as the State
Roads Commission shall impose at the time of the granting of said permit
or thereafter, and said permit in no event to be issued unless the need for
the direction or danger signals to be erected in connection therewith is
clearly demonstrated to the satisfaction of the State Roads Commission, and

1 The number " 15 " is apparently inadvertently omitted in the act. This section is
23 in this act.