(a) "Person" means 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 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 alleys.
(c) "Public Places" shall include all other grounds owned by the Village of Elmore.
(d) "Property Owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Elmore, Ottawa County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(e) "Public Trees" shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
(f) "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 and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six (6) feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting.
(g) "Right-of-Way" means any portion of the public way, street, alley, or sidewalk.
(h) "DBH" (diameter at breast height) is the diameter in inches of the stem of a standing tree at four and one-half (4.5) feet above the ground level.
(i) "Tree" means a tall growing woody plant worth one or more perennial main stems or a trunk which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than from the base; capable of being pruned to at least six (6) feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within ten (10) years of planting.
(j) "Small Tree" shall refer to trees no taller than twenty-five feet (25') at maturity.
(k) "Medium Tree" shall refer to trees taller than twenty-five feet (25') but not a height greater than fifty feet (50') at maturity.
(l) "Large Tree" shall refer to trees taller than fifty feet (50') at maturity.
(m) "Tree Inventory" shall refer to a survey of trees in all public places, including Village parks and tree lawns; identifying the number of trees, species distribution, size distribution, maintenance needs, and planting needs.
(n) "Tree Lawn" means that part of a street and or that part of private property abutting the street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(o) "Tree Topping" is the practice if removing whole tops of trees or large branches
and/or trunks from the tops of trees leaving stubs or lateral branches that are too small to assume the role of a terminal leader.
(Ord. 28-23. Passed 12-11-23.)