(a) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.
(b) "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.
(c) "Public Places" shall include all real property owned by the Village of Plain City.
(d) "Property Line" means the outer edge of a Street or Highway.
(e) "Administrator or their Agent" is the Village Administrator or employee hired by the Village of Plain City charged with the administrative duties of the Village.
(f) "Tree lawn" 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.
(g) "Property Owner" means the Person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Plain City, Madison or Union County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(h) "Tree" means a tall growing woody plant with one of more perennial main stems or trunks which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than from the base: capable of being pruned to as least six (6) feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five (5) years of planting.
(i) "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 (6) feet of clear branchless trunk within five (5) years of planting.
(j) “Public Trees" shall include 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) "Tree Topping" means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs of three (3) inches or more in diameter within the Tree's crown to such a degree as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the Tree.
(m) “Diameter at breast height" or "DBH" is the diameter in inches of the stem of a standing Tree at four feet and six inches (4' 6") above the ground level.
(n) "Work Permit" is the permit required for contractors, sub-contractors, or individuals engaging in the business of any Tree work within the Village.
(o) "10-20-30 rule" means no more than ten percent (10%) of the Tree population will be of one species, no more than twenty percent (20%) of one genus, and no more than thirty percent (30%) of the tree population will be of one family.
(Ord. 27-2023. Passed 10-9-23.)