Are trees landlord responsibility?

Landlords are therefore usually responsible for pruning and maintaining trees, shrubs and hedges and removing the cuttings. The landlord should also be responsible for ensuring that any trees are safe.

Who is liable when a tree falls on a neighbor’s property?

When Your Neighbor’s Policy Covers the Loss If your tree falls onto your neighbor’s property, the first thing your neighbor should do is submit a claim with his or her own insurance company. Their insurance firm will usually be responsible and will handle all damages.

Which tree was the most problematic to cut down?

Ans. The poet’s grandmother used to say that the trees are sacred and felling them is a crime. Q. 3 ‘But the huge banyan tree stood like a problem’.

What is the punishment for cutting trees?

The answer is ‘yes’, because, according to this Act, the penalty for cutting down a tree is Rs. 10,000 or 3 months imprisonment. There are several instances reported in which laymen ended up paying Rs. 10,000 as compounding fee to the forest department for cutting down trees in their premises.

Which trees Cannot be cut without the approval of the government?

The trees which can no longer be cut without permission even on private land include mango, neem, sal, mahua, beeja sal, peepal, banyan, goolar, pakad, arjun, palash, bel, chiraunji, khirni, kaitha, tamarind, jamun, asna, kusum, reetha, bhilawa, toon, salai, haldu, bakli, khair, sheesham and sagaon.

Why trees should not be cut down?

Significance. Large scale tree cutting can lead to deforestation, a transformation of an area from forest to terrain with little vegetation. Plants create oxygen and absorb greenhouse gases. The destruction of trees may, therefore, encourage global warming.

What happens if trees are cut down?

If we would cut trees what is going to happen is that population won’t stop growing but oxygen in the atmosphere will reduce. Another effect can be scarcity of food. They breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. We breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in oxygen.

What is the law regarding overhanging trees?

You have a common law right to cut back tree branches that overhang onto your property. The law states that any branches cut off belong to the person on whose land the tree originally grew, so you should ask your neighbour if they want them back, or if they are happy for you to dispose of them.

Is there any law against cutting trees?

Tree felling in Karnataka is covered under the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act 1976. The act explicitly mentions that no person can fell any tree, or cause any tree to be felled in any land, whether in their ownership or occupancy or otherwise, except with the previous permission of the Tree Officer.