For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
ANSI A300: The "American National Standard for Tree Care Operations - Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Maintenance - Standard Practices". This is a document offering basic performance standards for tree pruning, published in 1995 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) or the same as amended from time to time.
ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER: Any person owning property adjacent to public rights-of-way.
ALTERNATE HOST PLANT: One of two (2) kinds of plants on which a pest must develop to complete its life cycle.
ARBORICULTURE: The cultivation of trees, including planting, pruning, removal or any other action which affects the growth and maintenance of trees.
CITY: The City of Boise City, Idaho.
CITY FORESTER: The City Forester or the City Forester's designee.
CRITICAL ROOT ZONE: The area under a tree extending from the base of a tree in all directions to an imaginary line ten feet (10') outside of the dripline or as determined at a preliminary site inspection by the City Forester.
DUTCH ELM DISEASE: A disease condition in elm trees caused by fungal organisms known by the scientific names Ophiostoma ulmi or Ophiostoma novo-ulmi.
ELM TREE: Any species of the genus Ulmus.
HAZARD: Any tree, public or private, with visibly defined structural defects likely to cause failure of all or part of the tree, and be a danger to public safety.
PERMIT: Written approval issued by the City and required for any activity on public trees or within the critical root zone of public trees.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, company or organization of any kind.
PEST: Any insect, disease or other organism harmful to trees.
PRUNING: The practice of cutting tree limbs according to standards contained in ANSI A300.
PUBLIC PROPERTY: Any property owned by, dedicated to, or deeded to, the public or for the public's use. City parks, public rights-of-way and other publicly owned, controlled, leased or managed properties are included in this definition. This definition excludes any Federal or State owned properties, except where otherwise provided by contract or law.
PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY: Improved or unimproved public property owned by, dedicated to, or deeded to the public or for the public's use, for the purpose of providing vehicular, pedestrian and other public use. Such public property provides circulation and travel to abutting properties and includes, but is not limited to, streets, sidewalks, landscaping, provisions for public utilities, cut and fill slopes, and open public space. For the purposes of this chapter, alleys are excluded from this definition.
PUBLIC SAFETY: The condition of being safe from bodily harm and/or property damage resulting from tree conditions and/or failures while using public property.
PUBLIC TREES: Any tree (inclusive of roots within the critical root zone) whose trunk is located, partly or in whole, on public property.
TOPPING: "Rounding" or "heading back" or any other term that can be described as severe cutting back of limbs within a tree crown to buds, stubs or laterals not large enough to assume a terminal role or as defined in ANSI A300.
TREE: Any woody plant, which is fifteen feet (15') or more in height at maturity, with a single or multiple trunk, often unbranched for several feet above the ground and having a definite crown. (1952 Code § 9-16-02)