Greenburgh, NY Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

Town Code § 260-3E makes it unlawful for an owner, lessee or occupant of any lot or land to install trees, shrubs or bushes on the state's Prohibited and Regulated Invasive Species list under 6 NYCRR Part 575, and the code cites the DEC's own published list for reference. The prohibition sits inside Chapter 260's broader tree code, so it's enforced by the same officials who enforce the rest of the chapter: the Forestry Officer, Greenburgh Police Department, Building Inspector, Department of Public Works and Department of Parks and Recreation (§ 260-12F).

The code also builds the invasive-species policy into its removal and replanting rules elsewhere: removing an invasive tree carries no application fee at all (§ 260-12A), invasive trees don't count toward the 10-tree threshold that triggers mandatory professional consultant review of a removal application (§ 260-4C), and replacement plantings required after any approved tree removal can never themselves be an invasive species; § 260-8 states that planting of replacement trees is not required to replace removed invasive species, and that in no event may an invasive species of tree or plant be used as a replacement.