As used in this chapter:
(a) "City" means the incorporated City of Geneva, Ohio.
(b) "Dripline" means the approximately circular vertical extension to the ground of the outer most branches and leaves of a tree as an indication of the spread of the root system.
(c) "Large tree" means those trees attaining a height of forty-five feet or more.
(d) "Lawn strip or curb strip" means that part of a street or highway right of way outside of the portion improved for travel, including the sidewalk.
(e) "Medium tree" means those trees attaining a height of thirty to forty- five feet.
(f) "Park" means all public parks.
(g) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(h) "Property line" means the legal boundary line.
(i) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat.
(j) "Public place" means all grounds owned by the City other than as defined herein.
(k) "Public tree" means all shade and ornamental trees, now or hereafter growing on any street, including the lawn strip, or on any other public lands.
(l) "Shade or ornamental tree or shrub" means any and all woody vegetation.
(m) "Small tree" means those trees attaining a height of twenty to thirty feet.
(n) "Street or highway" means the entire width of every public way or right of way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
(Ord. 2059. Passed 4-9-84.)