4F, Amendment to Section 710 of the City Code

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B. The notices to be sent under the provisions of this subdivision shall be sent to the occupant of premises upon which the diseased shade trees or wood, or both as the case may be, are located, if those premises are occupied, and also to the owner of the premises, if the owner has an address different from the subject premises and the address is disclosed by the records of the county department of property taxation. Reasonable inquiry by the forester or the tree inspector(s) shall be sufficient to meet this requirement, and telephone inquiry of the office of the county department of property taxation shall be deemed reasonable inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining the addresses. If the subj ect premises are unoccupied, then mailing to the address of the owner as shown by the records of the county department of property taxation shall be deemed sufficient. C.. The notice shall inform the property owner of his or her right to request the City's tree removal contractor or to remove the tree(s) on his/her own accord. The notice shall provide the estimated cost of this service, which shall be billed back to the owner. D. No person shall allow, permit the spread of, or fail to abate a public nuisance as defined in this code. Such nuisances shall be abated in the manner prescribed in this code. Subd. 10 Removal of Diseased Shade Trees. A. An owner of real estate in the City who is notified of the existence on his or her property of shade trees or wood therefrom, or both as the case may be, harboring shade tree disease shall within the time specified in the written notice cut down or have cut down each of the diseased trees, remove or have removed all parts, branches and brush there from, and transport or have transported all the parts, branches and brush from the diseased trees and any diseased wood from the premises to an authorized disposal or chipping site. With respect to the transportation of wood from diseased elms or ash trees, it shall be unlawful for any person to transport within the City any bark-bearing elm or ash wood. B. The City Forester shall enforce the treatment of nuisance by requiring the performance of one or more of the following disease control methods listed in subsection C in order to destroy and prevent the spread of epidemic diseased of shade trees, including, but not limited to, Dutch elm disease, emerald ash borer, or oak wilt disease. Such abatement may be designated by the Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture or the University of Minnesota. C. The following abatement procedures are recommended by the City of Arden Hills: 1. Root graft barrier installation at least 60 inches in the soil to isolate the diseased trees; 2. Removal of trees; 3. Stump grinding; 4. Burning, chipping, debarking or properly covering and sealing the potentially hazardous wood and/or stumps. 7-6 Adopted December 17, 2001