b'Section 23 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 gives power to a local authority to deal with dangerous trees which include taking such steps as the authority thinks appropriate for the purpose of making the tree safe and recovering its expenses reasonably incurred in doing so from the owner/occupier of the land upon which the tree is situated. Vehicles 16.3 Section 3 of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978 gives a solution to the problem of what to do with abandoned vehicles. Sections 3 and 4 of this Act have been amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, in particular in relation to the process to be undertaken for arranging the disposal of a vehicle. Amongst other things, this section enables arrangements to be made between district councils and county councils and waste disposal authorities and other councils in respect of the disposal of such vehicles, and to make arrangements with regard to the sharing of expenses incurred or sums received by the council and such authority under the Act as may be agreed between them. Section 4 allows a local authority to dispose of any vehicle which is in its custody in pursuance of the above section. Subject to the procedure set out in this section, it can dispose of any vehicle which is in its custody or, if the vehicle is claimed by a person who satisfies the authority that he is the owner, the authority can charge such sums in respect of its removal and storage as may be prescribed. Section 4A, inserted by the 2005 Act, ensures that any authority has regard to any guidance issued by an appropriate person in relation to exercising these functions. SI 2008/2095 provides regulations and prescribed sums and charges in relation to these powers. Refuse 16.4 A similar power is provided in section 6 with regard to the removal and disposal of other refuse and other abandoned things. Local authorities can recover their costs of removing and disposing of such things from any person by whom it was put in the place from which it was removed or any person convicted of an offence in consequence of putting the thing in that place. Registration 16.5 The Environment and Safety Information Act 1988 requires authorities to which the Act applies (see the third column of the Schedule to the Act) to maintain a register of such notices relevant for the purposes of the Act as are served by the authority under the Act. It has to ensure that the register and the index are open to inspection by the public free of charge at all reasonable hours but can, on request, and upon payment of any reasonable fee as the authority may require, supply copies of entries in the register to any person inspecting the register. 158'