As used in this Chapter:
(a) “Village” means the Village of Haskins.
(b) “Tree Commission” means the administrative commission established in Ordinance 0-2008-6.
(c) “Administrator” means the Village Administrator.
(d) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(e) “Property Owner” means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor’s Plat of the Village of Haskins, Wood County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(f) “Street or Highway” means the entire width of every public way, easement of, 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.
(g) “Right-of-Way” means any portion of the public way, street, alley or sidewalk.
(h) “Property Line” means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(i) “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 and is usually the area between the property line side of a sidewalk and the paved portion of a street.
(j) “Boulevard Island” means the portion of divided streets that is unpaved, public property owned or held by the Village of Haskins and over which the Village of Haskins has a right to restrict, manage, and control plantings, typically located at entrances and exits from residential area. Occasionally these boulevard islands run the entire length of a street.
(k) “Cul-De-Sac Island” means the unpaved portion of cul-de-sacs, public property owned or held by the Village of Haskins and over which the Village of Haskins has a right to restrict, manage, and control plantings.
(l) “Public Places” shall include all other grounds owned by the Village of Haskins.
(m) “Tree” means a tall growing woody plant with one or more perennial main stems or trunk which develops branches fiom 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.
(n) “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.
(o) “Public Trees” shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
(p) “Street Tree” means a public tree planted within a Treelawn.
(q) “Tree Topping” means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs of three 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. 2008-7. Passed 10-20-08.)