(a) It is hereby declared and determined that the following things and conditions are nuisances:
(1) Dutch elm disease;
(2) Elm bark beetles;
(3) Any living or standing elm tree or part thereof infested with the Dutch elm disease fungus, or is in a weakened condition or which harbors any of the elm bark beetles;
(4) Any dead elm tree or part thereof, including logs, branches, stumps, firewood or other elm tree material from which the bark has not been removed, burned or buried.
(b) Whenever the Service Director finds that any one or more of the nuisance conditions herein described is present on any private property in the City, he or she shall cause written notice to be served upon the owner or occupant of such private property. Such notice shall order such owner or occupant to spray or treat such infested or weakened elm tree or to remove any dead elm tree or part thereof or to remove such nuisance condition as is required by the circumstances and shall state the time within which such action is to be taken, which shall be at least ten days. No owner or occupant of any premises in the City upon which any condition set forth in this section exists shall fail, refuse or neglect to abate such condition after receipt of the notice in writing within the period set forth therein.
(1982 Code, § 917.13) (Ord. 72-80. Passed 9-19-1972.)