(a) "City" means the City of Perrysburg.
(b) "Street Tree Commission" means the administrative commission established in Chapter 278 of the Administrative Code.
(c) "Director" means the Director of Public Service.
(d) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(e) "Street or Highway" means the entire width of every public way, easement 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.
(f) “Public Places" shall include all other grounds owned by the City of Perrysburg.
(g) "Property Line" means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(h) "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.
(i) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the City of Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(j) "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 from the base, capable to being pruned to at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(k) "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.
(l) "Public Trees" shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.
(m) "Right-of-Way" means any portion of the public way, street, alley or sidewalk.
(n) "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. 296-2006. Passed 12-19-06.)
(o) “Volcano mulching” means the piling of mulch up the trunk of the tree obscuring the root flare. (Ord. 60-2018. Passed 5-1-18.)