(a) No person shall interfere with the Service Director, his or her subordinates or his or her assistants while engaged in or about the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter or the doing of any of the work ordered by the Director to be done hereunder.
(b) The Director or any employee or any assistant designated by him or her may enter upon any private property in the City to make an examination or test of any tree thereon and may remove the bark or spray or perform any other operation necessary in the control of Dutch elm disease with respect to any dead elm tree or elm logs, branches or cordwood.
(c) In the event that it is found necessary to spray such tree or to remove any dead elm tree or part thereof, or any part of a living or standing elm tree or part thereof infested with the Dutch elm disease or fungus or which is in a weakened condition and which harbors elm bark beetles, and the owner requests the City to arrange for such spraying or removal, the Director may require such owner to pay in advance the estimated cost of such spraying or removal subject to adjustment between the estimated and actual cost thereof.
(1982 Code, § 917.14) (Ord. 72-80. Passed 9-19-1972.)