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City of Mounds View <br />605.02 605.04 (Rev. 5/10) <br />Subd. 2. Right of Entry: May enter upon private premises at any reasonable time for the purposes <br />of carrying out any of the duties assigned to the City Administrator under this Chapter. <br />(1988 Code §92.02; 1993 Code) (Amended, Ord. 844, 5-20-10) <br />605.03:NUISANCES DECLARED; ABATEMENT: <br />Subd. 1. Nuisances Declared: The following are hereby declared public nuisances whenever they <br />may be found within the City: <br />a. Any living or standing elm tree or part thereof infected to any degree with the Dutch elm <br />disease fungus Ceratocystis ulmi (buisman) moreau or which harbors any of the elm bark <br />beetles Scolytus multistriatus (eichh.) or Hylurgo-pinus rufipes (marsh). <br />b. Any dead or dying elm tree or part thereof, including logs, branches, stumps, firewood or <br />other elm material from which the bark has not been removed and burned or buried. <br />c. Any living or standing red oak tree or part thereof, infected to any degree with the oak <br />wilt fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum. <br />d. Any diseased wood from the red oak group which, by April 1 in any given year, has not <br />been either debarked, burned, buried or split into quarter sections and completely enclosed <br />with a covering (at least 4-mil, if plastic) adequately thick and whole so as to isolate the <br />wood until July 15 of the year immediately following the wilting of the tree from which said <br />wood originated. <br />e. Other trees with epidemic disease or factors which are potentially hazardous to the spread <br />of such disease. <br />Subd. 2. Nuisance Declared Unlawful: It is unlawful for any person to permit public nuisances, as <br />herein defined, to remain on any premises owned or controlled by that person within the <br />City. (1988 Code §92.03) <br />605.04:ABATEMENT PROCEDURES; ASSESSMENT OF COSTS: <br />Subd. 1. Notice to Abate: Whenever the City Administrator or an agent find that nuisances, as <br />defined in Section 605.03 of this Chapter, exist on any public or private property in the City, <br />they shall notify the property owner on which such nuisances are located, by personal <br />service or by mail, that the nuisances must be abated within a specified time, not less than <br />ten (10) days from the date of service or from the date of mailing of such notice. If mailed <br />notice or personal service cannot be achieved, then notice may be obtained by publishing <br />same in the legal newspaper not less than five (5) days prior to the date that the nuisance