(a) "Evergreen" means any tree that retains its green living foliage the entire year.
(b) "Menace trees" means any tree within City limits, having attribute of damage or potential to cause damage, including but not limited to, trees which may obstruct vision to a motorist as to constitute a hazard.
(c) "Park trees" means trees, shrubs, and all other woody vegetation in public parks and all other woody vegetation in public parks and all areas owned by the City, or to which the public has free access as a park.
(d) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(e) "Plant life" includes trees, shrubs, bushes and the like.
(f) "Principal thoroughfare" means any street upon which trucks are not prohibited.
(g) "Property line" means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(h) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the City of Napoleon, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(i) "Public places" includes all other grounds owned by the City.
(j) "Public trees" includes all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
(k) "Right-of-way" means any portion of the public way, street, alley, or sidewalk.
(l) "Shrub" means a low growing, wood plant with one of 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.
(m) "Street" or "highway" means the entire width of every public way, easement or right-of-way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and shall include alleys.
(n) "Street trees" means trees, shrubs, and all other woody vegetation on land lying between property lines on either side of all streets, avenues, or ways within the City.
(o) "Tree" means a tall growing wood 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.
(p) "Treelawn" means that part of the street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(q) "Tree topping" means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs and 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. 41-95. Passed 5-1-95.)
(Ord. 41-95. Passed 5-1-95.)