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Subd, 3 Forester. The position of city forester is hereby continued and the powers and duties of the officer arc hereby conferred upon the person as designated from time to time by the mayor with the concurrence of the CounciL It shall be the duty of the forester to coordinate, under the direction and control of the Council, all activities of the City relating to the control and prevention of shade tree diseases, He or she shall recommend to the Council the details of a program for the control and prevention of the diseases and perform the duties incident to such a program as adopted by the CounciL Inspections may be performed by a designated tree inspector( s), Subd, 4 Interference Prohibited, It shall be unlawful for any person to prevent, delay or interfere with the forester or his or her tree inspector(s) or designee while they are engaged in the performance of duties imposed by this subsection, Subd, 5, Epidemic Disease Program, It is the intention ofthe City Council to conduct a program of pest control pursuant to the authority granted by Minnesota statues section l8G,16, as amended, directed at the control and elimination of Dutch elm disease, oak wilt disease, and elimination of other tree diseases and is undertaken at the recommendation of the Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture, Subd, 6 Nuisances Declared, A, The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances whenever and wherever they may be found within the City: 1, Any elm tree or part thereof infected to any degree with the Dutch elm diseasc fungus Ceratocyslis Ulmi (Buisman) Moreau or which harbors any of the elm bark bcctles Scolytus Multistriatus (Marsh am) or Hylurgopinus Rufipes (Eichhoff); 2 1 . . .