A. Nuisance Declared: No person owning real estate within the village shall permit to grow thereon or remain thereon any elm tree infected with Dutch elm disease, and to do so is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
B. Removal Required: The owner of any premises within the village upon which there is an elm tree infected with Dutch elm disease shall remove the same immediately upon discovering it, by cutting the same down. The tree so cut down, together with all its limbs, shall be cut into lengths not to exceed four feet (4') and placed upon the parkway in the street to be removed by the village. Upon so cutting the trees and placing them upon the parkway, the owner of said property shall notify the village public works superintendent in order that the same may be removed by the village. (1999 Code § 18.02)