Wyandotte County, KS Landscaping Rules: Tree Removal & Heritage Trees (2026)

Sec. 22-84 flatly bars anyone from digging up, cutting down, removing, or otherwise injuring a tree or shrub located in any public ground, street, avenue, or alley in the county; the section carries no exception for trimming versus outright removal, so pruning that injures a public tree is covered along with felling it. Because the section does not assign it a specific violation class, it defaults to an unclassified violation under the general penalty provision, Sec. 00 and up to 90 days confinement unless the court imposes something else authorized in the offense itself.

Separately, Sec. 00 for property damage per occurrence before the license issues; that coverage must stay in force for the life of the license. The unified government and board of public utilities are themselves exempt from the licensing requirement and retain the right, under Sec. 32-365, to remove any street tree that is unsafe, injurious to sewers or utility lines, or infected with a disease capable of killing trees community-wide. Sec. 5 times the trunk diameter in inches, and any waiver of that protection must come from the director of parks in writing before work begins.