For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires or indicates a different meaning.
ACTUAL COST. Invoices paid, overhead plus labor and materials used.
DAMAGE. Any action undertaken which causes injury or death of a tree. This includes, but is not limited to, cutting, poisoning, over watering, relocating or transplanting a tree, or trenching, excavating or paying within the root zone of a tree.
DRIPLINE. The outermost edge of the tree's canopy. When depicted on a map, the DRIPLINE will appear as an irregular shape that follows the contour of the tree's branches as seen overhead.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PROPERTY OWNER. The person owning the property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Amberley, Hamilton County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
PUBLIC PLACES. All other grounds owned by the Village of Amberley.
PUBLIC TREES. All shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
ROOT FEEDING ZONE. The outer two-thirds of the root zone.
ROOT ZONE. The area within the dripline of a tree extending to at least two feet below the surface of the ground.
STREET OR HIGHWAY. The entire width of every public way, easement or right-of-way when any part thereof is open to the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
STREET TREES AND OTHER PUBLIC TREES. Any tree of which more than one-half of the basal cross-sectional area is located on city property.
TREE. A tall growing woody plant with one or more perennial main stems or trunks which develop branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than from the base; capable of being pruned to at least six feet of clear branches trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
TREE EXPERT. A certified professional forester and/or certified arborist.
TREE LAWN. That part of a street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
TREE TOPPING. The severe cutting back of limbs to stubs of three inches or more in diameter within the tree's crown to such a degree as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree.
(Ord. 2004-19, passed 11-8-04)