Trimming Trees Can Get You Into Trouble

Here’s a newspaper article about how Clear Channel got into trouble with the city of Catskill by illegally trimming trees which blocked a billboard.  Clear Channel paid reparations to the City for illegally cutting the trees.  You need to make sure that your leases give you the right to trim trees which might block your board.  You also need to be careful about erecting a billboard on a site which neighboring trees might block (this happened to Clear Channel).