(A) The borough may require owners of property abutting on any street, including state highways, to cut and remove plants, shrubs and trees, which are no longer viable or afflicted with Dutch elm or other disease, which threatens to injure or destroy plants, shrubs and shade trees, or destroy property in the borough.
(B) Notice to remove diseased trees shall be given by registered or certified mail to abutting property owners, and such owners shall have 20 days to comply with said notice.
(C) On failure of any owner, after reasonable notice, to comply with the terms of any such regulation, the borough may call such trees to be removed at the expense of the borough, and thereupon, in the name of the borough, collect the cost of such work from the owners in default, as debts of like amount or by law collectible.
(D) Where in the opinion of the borough a dangerous condition exists that can be remedied by an expenditure of $100, the borough shall send such property owner notice by registered or certified mail stating an emergency situation exists which requires removal of the tree or parts of the tree. Upon failure of such owner to comply with the notice within 48 hours after receiving it, the borough may make the emergency removal and levy costs of its work on such owner as a property lien to be collected in the manner provided by law.
(Ord. 138-1988, passed 8-1-1988) Penalty, see § 151.999