Different kinds of trees require different kinds of pruning. If you cut back a maple like that, you will kill it.
This was obviously intentional. And for no obvious reason, other than spite. He deserves the fine.
If you cut back a maple like that, you will kill it.
Not a silver maple. It will sprout suckers all over. The only way to kill a silver maple is to rip the stump out with a bulldozer, dynamite a crater at least twice the diameter of the stump and salt the earth.
An American cannot go through the day without violating some law. Forget it.