For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Street or highway" means the entire width of every public way, easement of right-of-way when any part thereof is open to the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, and shall include alleys.
(b) "Public places" and "public property" shall include all grounds owned by the Village of Coldwater.
(c) "Property line" means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(d) "Tree lawn" means that part of a street or highway, lying between the property line and the curb or portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(e) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Coldwater, Mercer County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(f) "Tree" means a tall growing woody plant with one or more perennial main stems or trunk which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than from the base; capable of being pruned to at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(g) "Shrub" means low growing woody plant with one or several perennial main stems producing branches, shoots, or multiple stems from or near the base of the plant and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting.
(h) "Public trees" shall include all shade and ornamental trees now and hereafter growing on any public places.
(i) "Urban forest" shall be all wooded plants within the Village.
(Ord. 1658. Passed 4-24-17.)