The board of supervisors may plant shade and ornamental trees on the county highways, and provide for their care. The cost of planting and caring for such trees may be paid from the county general fund.
The board may also encourage, under such regulations as it adopts, the planting and preservation of shade and ornamental trees on the county highways, and may pay a sum not exceeding one dollar to any person planting and cultivating a living tree, payment to be made when the tree is four years of age.
(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)