7.__Treats or cares for.__"Treats or cares for" means the pruning, trimming and shaping of trees when the care requires the person to leave the ground.__"Treats or cares for" also includes installing lightning protections, cabling or bracing of trees.

§2174.__Exemptions

This subchapter does not apply to:

1.__Certain property.__Any person with reference to trees on that person's own premises or on the property of that person's regular employer;

2.__Personnel.__Any individual performing labor or services in connection with trees on a site where a licensed arborist is present;

3.__Certain employees.__State, county, municipal, quasi- municipal or public utility employees while engaged in their regular line of duty or those individuals contracted during emergencies that result in public hardships;

4.__Scientific specialists.__Scientific specialists such as plant pathologists, entomologists, botanists, foresters, horticulturists and others who are not arborists but who by academic training are professionally qualified to perform certain services performed by licensed arborists.__Services performed by those specialists for a fee are limited to consultation, advisory or expert diagnostic services.__Those specialists are prohibited from performing all other activities of practicing arborists without examination; or

5.__Others.__Highway contractors, subcontractors and their employees who remove trees during the performance of contracts for the construction or maintenance of highways and general contractors who remove interfering shade or ornamental trees or interfering parts of shade or ornamental trees in the conduct of their regular business.

§2175.__Penalties; injunction

1.__Penalties.__Any person who violates this subchapter is guilty of a Class E crime.

2.__Injunction.__The State may bring an action in Superior Court to enjoin any person from violating this chapter,