No person, firm or corporation shall hitch or fasten any horse or other animal to any tree, palm, shrub or plant now or hereafter growing in any public right-of-way in the City; nor shall any person, firm or corporation cause or permit any horse or other animal to stand or be near enough to any tree, palm, shrub or plant to bite or run against, or in any manner injure or deface, the same; nor shall any person, firm or corporation place a post for hitching of horses or other animals within five feet of any tree, palm, shrub or plant now or hereafter growing in any of the public rights-of-way of the City. (Ord. 1205 § 2, 1969; prior code § 27.810).