Council finds and determines that Dutch Elm Disease and the virus disease Phloem Necrosis, commonly known as "Elm Blight", threaten shade trees in the streets and public grounds and on public property in the Municipality, that shade trees infected with such diseases are public nuisances and that in order to protect and preserve shade trees in the Municipality it is necessary to discover and control such diseases and to provide for the destruction of diseased trees and the abatement of such nuisances.
(Ord. 1982-36. Passed 1-24-83.)