ANSI A300: The "American National Standard for Tree Care Operations - Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Maintenance Standard Practices". This is a document offering basic performance standards for tree pruning, published in 1995 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) or the same as amended from time to time.
ANSI Z133.1: That certain safety standard regarding the planting and maintenance of trees in proximity to utility lines as published by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., May 22, 2001 edition or the same as amended from time to time.
ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER: Any person owning property adjacent to public right-of-way.
ALTERNATE HOST PLANT: One of two (2) kinds of plants on which a pest must develop to complete its life cycle.
ARBORICULTURE: The cultivation of trees, including planting, pruning, removal or any other action that affects the growth and maintenance of trees.
CITY: The City of Payette, Idaho.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR: Payette City Clerk and/or a designee of the Mayor and Payette City Council.
CITY FORESTER: Also referred to as Street/Parks Superintendent or the City Forester's designee.
COMMISSION: Payette Community Forestry Commission.
COMMUNITY FOREST: The sum of all trees and shrubs within the City of Payette.
COUNCIL: The Payette City Council.
CRITICAL ROOT ZONE: The area under a tree extending from the base of a tree in all directions to an imaginary line ten feet (10') outside of the drip line or as determined at a preliminary site inspection by the City Forester.
HAZARD/HAZARDOUS: Any tree, public or private, with visibly defined structural defects likely to cause failure to all or part of the tree, and be a danger to public safety.
LICENSEE/APPLICANT: Any person or business performing tree care or pruning for a fee and/or compensation within the City of Payette.
NOTABLE PRIVATE TREE: A private tree that may be classified as an addition to the Payette community forest at the private owner's request.
PAYETTE COMMUNITY FORESTRY COMMISSION: As stated in section 12.18.060 of this chapter.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, company or organization of any kind.
PEST: Any insect, disease or other organism harmful to trees.
PRIVATE TREE: Any tree (inclusive of roots within the critical root zone), within the community forest that is not a public tree.
PRUNING: The practice of cutting tree limbs according to standards contained in ANSI A300.
PUBLIC NUISANCES: Any tree or part thereof (public or private) which, by reason of location or conditions, constitutes a hazard to public safety as determined by the City Forester. Any tree or part thereof (on public or private property) which obstructs the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic or which obstructs public street lighting or which because of its condition constitutes a threat to any member of the public. Any tree or alternate host plant or part thereof (on public or private property) which harbors pests which reasonably may be expected to injure or harm public trees.
PUBLIC PROPERTY: Any property owned by, dedicated to, or deeded to the public or for the public's use. City parks, public rights-of-way and other publicly owned, controlled, leased or managed properties are included in this definition. This definition excludes any Federal or State owned properties except where otherwise provided by contract or law.
PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY: Improved or unimproved public property owned by, dedicated to, or deeded to the public or for the public's use, for the purpose of providing vehicular, pedestrian and other public use. Such public property provides circulation and travel to abutting properties and includes, but is not limited to, streets, sidewalks, landscaping, provisions for public utilities, cut and fill slopes, and open public space. For purposes of this chapter, alleys are excluded from this definition.
PUBLIC SAFETY: The condition of being safe from bodily harm and/or property damage resulting from tree conditions and/or failures while using public property.
PUBLIC TREE: Any tree (inclusive of roots within the critical root zone) whose trunk is located, partly or in whole, on public property.
SHRUB: A multiple stemmed, woody plant whose height at maturity is between three feet (3') and fifteen feet (15').
SUPERINTENDENT: The Superintendent of Public Parks for the City of Payette, Idaho. Also referred to as the Payette City Forester.
TOPPING: "Rounding" or "heading back" or any other term that can be described as severe cutting back of limbs within a tree crown to buds, stubs, or laterals not large enough to assume a terminal role or as defined in ANSI A300.
TREE: Any woody plant, which is fifteen feet (15') or more in height at maturity, with a single or multiple trunks, often unbranched for several feet above the ground and having a definite crown. (Ord. 1431, 2017)