As used in this chapter:
(a) “City trees” shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
(b) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(c) “Property line” means the outer edge of a right of way.
(d) “Property owner” means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor’s Plat of the City of Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(e) “Pruning” includes cutting or trimming any tree limbs or branches.
(f) “Public places” shall include all other grounds owned by the City of Fremont.
(g) “Right of way” means any portion of the public way, street, alley, or sidewalk.
(h) “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 feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting.
(i) “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.
(j) “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.
(k) “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.
(l) “Treelawn” means that part of a street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(Ord. 2003-3301. Passed 11-6-03.)