Fishers, IN Landscaping Rules: Tree Trimming (2026)

Fishers' Unsafe Trees subchapter puts the trimming duty on the property owner, not the city. City Code § 95.11 makes owners 'ultimately responsible for the trimming, pruning and removal of trees that extend onto a public right-of-way, sidewalk or public property,' plus any unsafe tree that could fall into or encroach on one. § 95.12 makes it a violation to let an unsafe tree extend over a right-of-way, sidewalk, or public property, or to fail to remove one that could fall there. If an owner ignores a city notice under § 95.14, § 95.13 lets Fishers' representatives enter the property to trim, prune, or remove the tree themselves, and § 95.17 separately penalizes anyone who interferes with the city while it prunes, trims, or removes a tree extending over the right-of-way.