"Public place" means any public street, highway, avenue, park, parkway and other public area or property owned or held by the City within the boundaries of the City.
"Tree" means any tree.
"Arboriculture" or "tree preservation" means the treating, spraying, pruning, maintaining and any other care or work intended for the strengthening of trees, and the removal and prevention of tree pests, blights and diseases of any and all kinds.
"Commission" means the Park and Shade Tree Commission.
"Noxious weeds" means any of the following: Shatter cane (sorghum bicolor), Russian thistle (salsola kali or tenuifolia), Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense), Wild parsnip (Pastinance sativa), Wild carrot (Queen Ann's Lace or Daucus carota), Oxeye daisy (Crysanthermum leucanthemum or pinnatifidum), Wild mustard (Brassica kaber or pinnatifida), Grapevines: when growing in groups of one hundred or more and not pruned, sprayed, cultivated or otherwise maintained, Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), Quackgrass (Agropyron repens), Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), Hoary cress (Cardaria draba), Hairy whitetop or Ballcress (Cardaria Pubescens), Perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis), Russian Knapweed (Centaurea picris), Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula), Hege bindweed (Convolvulus sepium), Serrated Tussock (Nassella Trichotoma), Dodder (Cuscuta spp), Horsenettle (Solanum Carolinese), Corncokle (Agrostemma githago), Wild garlic (Allium veneale), Wild onion (Allium canadense), Curley dock (Rumex Crispus), French weed (Thlaspi arvense), Buckhorn (Plantago lanceolate), Baneberry (Actaea rubra and Actaea alba), Bittersweet (Solanum dullcamara), Castor bean (Ricinus communis), Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), Deadly Nighshade (Atropa belladonna), Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), Green Hellebore (Veratrum viride), Jimson weed (Datura stramonium and Datura tatula), Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), Poison ivy (Rhus Toxicodendron), and Poison oak (Rhus Toxicodendron). (Ord. 1990-139. Passed 7-10-90.)