It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare by providing for the regulation of the planting, maintenance, and removal of trees, shrubs, and other plants within the City of Madison Lake. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Madison Lake, Minnesota, to regulate and control the planting, transplanting, treatment, removal, maintenance, and protection of trees and shrubs in the city in order to control diseases, to eliminate and guard against dangerous conditions which may result in injury to persons using the streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public property of the city; to prevent damage to any public utility, street, sidewalk, or other public property; to protect trees and shrubs located in public areas from undesirable and unsafe planting, removal, treatment, and maintenance practices; to guard all trees and shrubs within the city against the spread of disease or pests. The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to all trees , shrubs, or plants growing or hereafter planted in or upon any public right-of-way or other premises which shall threaten the lives, health, safety, or welfare of the public or of the property owned or controlled by the city.
(Ord. 176, passed 7-19-1993)