As used in this chapter:
(a) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(b) “Street” or “highway” are synonymous and mean the entire width of every public way, easement or right-of-way, between the property lines, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, and includes alleys.
(c) “Public property” shall include all other grounds owned by the City of Galion, including parks.
(d) “Property line” means the line between the outer edge of a street or highway and the abutting real estate.
(e) “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. This definition includes curb strips, but also any other unpaved street right-of- way, whether or not a sidewalk is present, and regardless of a sidewalk’s location.
(f) “Public trees” shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street or on any public property.
(g) “Property owner” means the person owning real property as shown by the County Auditor’s Plat of the City of Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(h) “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 the base; capable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(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 and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting. (Ord. 95-6133. Passed 4-25-95.)