The Chief Administrative Officer is hereby authorized to inspect any tree within the Municipality reported or supposed to be infected with Dutch Elm Disease or the virus disease Phloem Necrosis, commonly known as "Elm Blight", or any other disease. If upon such inspection the Chief Administrative Officer determines that such tree is infected with either of such diseases, he may, if the tree is in any public street, ground or way within the Municipality, immediately remove and burn the same in such manner as to prevent as fully as possible the spread of such disease. If such tree is located on private property, the Chief Administrative Officer may immediately serve upon the owner of such property a written notice that such tree is so infected and the same must be removed and burned under the supervision of the Chief Administrative Officer within five days of the service of such notice. If such owner cannot be found, a copy of the notice shall be posted upon the infected tree. If the tree is not so removed and burned within five days after the service or posting of the notice, the Chief Administrative Officer may cause such tree to be so removed and burned.
(Ord. 1982-36. Passed 1-24-83.)