For the purpose of this chapter the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivation shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural include the singular, and words in the singular include the plural. The word shall is mandatory and not merely directory.
(a) Person: is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(b) Street or Highway: means 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, and shall include alleys.
(c) Public Places: shall include all other grounds owned by the Village of Elida.
(d) Property Line: is the outer edge of a street or highway.
(e) Treelawn: is that part of the street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(f) Property Owner: is the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Elida, Allen County, Ohio including the executor, administrator or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(g) Tree: is a tall growing woody plant within 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.
(h) Shrub: is 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 and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting.
(i) Public Trees: shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on all public places.
(j) Right of Way: is any portion of the public way, street, alley or sidewalk.
(k) Tree Topping: is 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. 1129-2018. Passed 6-26-18.)
(Ord. 1129-2018. Passed 6-26-18.)