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Title 8 — HEALTH AND SANITATION

Rialto Municipal Code Ch. 8.12 Trees and Shrubs

Rialto Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Rialto

Cite as: Rialto Municipal Code Chapter 8.12 · Text as of 2026-10-04

8.12.010 - Chapter administration.

The city administrator or his/her delegate shall administer this chapter.

(Ord. 1234 (part), 1995: 1965 code Title VIII, Ch. 4, § 1)

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8.12.020 - Infected vegetation.

Any domestic and cultivated fruit tree or ornamental tree or shrub infested with red, yellow or black scale, mealy bug or other insect pests or diseases detrimental to agricultural crops is declared a public nuisance.

Any person, firm or corporation maintaining such public nuisance who refuses or neglects for a period of ten days after receiving notice from the city to abate such public nuisance is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(1965 code Title VIII, Ch. 4, § 2)

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8.12.030 - Pruning.

Any accumulation of limbs, branches, prunings, trimmings, stumps and part of domestic or cultivated fruit trees or shrubs, cut, removed, fallen or severed from such trees is declared a public nuisance.

Any person, firm or corporation maintaining such public nuisance who refuses or neglects for a period of ten days after receiving notice from the city to abate such public nuisance is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(1965 code Title VIII, Ch. 4, § 4)

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