(A) Every owner, tenant or occupant of private property within the City shall eradicate by spraying or treating any disease or pests, eggs or larvae or any pest injurious to trees, plants and shrubs or vines upon and from such property including the planting strip abutting such property by and not later than April 25 of each and every year and shall spray such plants and trees under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of Streets.
(B) Should any owner, tenant or occupant of private property within the City fail or neglect to eradicate by spraying or treating any diseases or pests, eggs or larvae of pests injurious to trees, plants and vines as herein required, then the City may have its proper officers and employees spray or treat said trees, plants, shrubs and vines diseased or infected with pests, eggs or larvae of pests and assess the cost of such spraying or treating against said private property and the same shall be a lien thereon. Such assessment to be certified by the City Clerk to the County Assessor or to the proper County officer having charge of the making up of the assessment rolls and collected in the same manner as other Municipal taxes are collected. (1958 Code, ch. VI, art. 8)