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<br /> <br /> <br />605.02: INSPECTION AND INVESTIGATION: The City Administrator or an agent: <br /> <br />Subd. 1. Inspection: The tree inspector Sshall inspect all premises and places within the City as <br />often as practicable but not less than that required by the State1, to determine whether any <br />condition described in subdivision 605.03(1) of this Chapter exists thereon. The City <br />Administrator shall tree inspector may investigate all incidents of infestations by Dutch elm <br />fungus, elm bark beetles, oak wilt fungus, emerald ash borer, or any other non-native <br />invasive pests, epidemic diseases, of trees and suchor other factors which are potentially <br />contributory to the spread of tree disease and pests. <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Right of Entry: The tree inspector Mmay enter upon private premises at any reasonable <br />time for the purposes of carrying out any of the duties assigned to the City Administrator <br />tree inspector under this Chapter. <br /> <br /> <br />605.03: NUISANCES DECLARED; ABATEMENT: <br /> <br />Subd. 1. Nuisances Declared: The following are hereby declared public nuisances whenever they <br />may be found within the City: <br /> <br /> a. Any living or standing elm tree, or part thereof, infected to any degree with the Dutch <br />elm disease fungus Ceratocystis ulmi (buisman) moreau or which harbors any of the elm <br />bark beetles Scolytus multistriatus (eichh.) or Hylurgo-pinus rufipes (marsh). <br /> <br /> b. Any dead or dying elm tree, or part thereof, including logs, branches, stumps, firewood <br />or other elm material from which the bark has not been removed and burned or buried. <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br /> e. Any living or standing ash tree, or part thereof, infested to any degree with the emerald <br />ash borer Agrilus planipennis by presence of: 1) larval galleries and emerald ash borer larva <br />or larvae; or 2) emerald ash borer adult beetles and “D”-shaped exit holes. <br /> <br /> f. Any dead or dying ash tree, or part thereof, including logs, branches, stumps, firewood, or <br />other ash material, to which the bark is still attached that may serve as a breeding place for <br />emerald ash borer. <br /> <br /> eg. Other trees with non-native invasive pests, epidemic disease, or other factors which are <br />potentially hazardouscontributory to the spread of such pests and disease. <br /> <br /> 1 M.S.A. §18.022, subdivision 9.