(a) Certified Arborist is a professional arborist with a minimum of three years' full-time experience working in the professional tree care industry, who has passed a comprehensive examination and holds a current certification/credential as developed by the International Society of Arboriculture.
(b) DBH (Diameter at Breast Height) is the tree's trunk diameter in inches at four and one-half (4.5) feet from the base of the tree.
(c) Person means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, the State of Ohio or a political subdivision, government agency or organization of any kind.
(d) Public Lands are all lands owned by or leased to the municipality and privately-owned lands which have been dedicated by the owners thereof to public purposes and are customarily maintained by the City of Defiance.
(e) Property Line means the outer edge of the private property line that borders with the right-of-way.
(f) Property Owner means the person or organization owning such property as shown by the Defiance County, Ohio Auditor's Office including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(g) Public Trees are trees. shrubs and other woody vegetation located on Public Lands other than rights-of-way.
(h) Right-of-Way means an area of land duly dedicated or held by the City for free and unobstructed passage of residents, including paved streets, parking strips, and sidewalks within its limits.
(i) Shrub means a 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.
(j) Street or Highway means the entire width of every public right-of-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 pedestrian traffic, and shall include platted alleys.
(k) Street Trees are trees, shrubs and other woody vegetation on land lying within the street rights-of-way of the municipality.
(l) 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.
(m) Tree Lawn means that part of the right-of-way, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(n) Tree Topping means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs of three (3) 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. 8178. Passed 11-26-19.)