(A) Whenever the City Forester, his or her agents or employees, finds with reasonable certainty that the infestation defined in § 93.03 above exists in any tree or wood located on private property, outside of any public way in the city, they shall notify by registered or certified mail, the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of the property on which they nuisance is found, of the infestation and direct that the infestation shall be removed and burned, or otherwise effectively treated in an approved manner by the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control within 10 days after receipt of the notice.
(B) The notice shall also state that if the nuisance shall not have been abated by the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control within the time provided, the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control may be charged with a violation of this chapter for maintaining a nuisance and that the city by and through its City Council may abate the nuisance and assess the costs against the property.
(C) If the owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of any private premises upon which a tree is situated fails to have the tree so removed and burned or otherwise effectively treated, within 10 days after notification by mail the City Forester, his or her agents or employees, shall proceed to have the tree removed and burned or otherwise effectively treated, and any expense incurred by the city in so doing shall be a charge and lien upon the property and shall be collected as a special assessment in the same manner as other special assessments.
(Prior Code, § 16.107) Penalty, see § 10.99