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Curb Side Tree Limb Collection Policy

Objective: To provide Village residents and business owners with an economical way of disposing Tree clippings and not burning clippings.

Goal: Collect & chip all tree limbs that are placed in Village owned Right-of-Way each Monday or the following day if Monday is a Holiday.

Rules:

  1. Collection period starts the first Monday in March and ends the Last Monday in November.
  2. Tree Limbs are to be no longer than 8 feet and no greater than 10 inch in Diameter.
  3. If the resident or business owner hires a commercial tree trimming company to cut down a tree, the commercial contractor is responsible for tree limb removal and the Village shall not collect Limbs.
  4. Tree Limb is defined as a limb removed from the trunk of a tree. Trunks and root balls of a tree may not be removed by the Village.
  5. Tree Limbs must be in place for collection by 8:00 AM of the collection day.
  6. The Village staff has a right to refuse to remove any landscape waste deemed not a tree limb.
  7. It is not the Village Staffs responsibility to assist Village residents in removing Landscape waste that does not qualify as Tree Limbs. 

Passed by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Forsyth, Illinois, this 21st, day of September, 2009

 

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