[steveo]

The new ordinance requires property owners to pay $80 for a permit to remove trees along a lakefront.

Yup... there you go!

[Chummy]

Without checking, my hunch is that's going to be $80 per tree, alive or dead, and "dead" will require an additional expenditure to certify the tree is bereft of life, ceases to exist, etc. (with apologies to Monty Python's Flying Circus)

Just a hunch.