(a) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.
(b) “Property line” means the outer edge of a street or highway right-of-way.
(c) “Property owner” means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor’s Plat of the Village of Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio.
(d) “Pruning” means to cut branches, stems, etc. from a plant to improve shape and/or growth.
(e) “Public places” includes all grounds owned by the Village of Sunbury.
(f) “Public trees” includes all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street right of way or any public place.
(g) “Shrub” means a low-growing woody plant with one or more 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.
(h) “Small tree” means any tree species which normally attains a full grown height under thirty feet.
(i) “Medium tree” means any tree species which normally attains a full-grown height between thirty and fifty feet.
(j) “Large tree” means any tree species which normally attains a full grown height over fifty feet.
(k) “Park trees” are trees, shrubs, and all other woody vegetation in public parks and all areas owned by the Village of Sunbury, Ohio, or to which the public has free access as a park.
(l) “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.
(m) “Street trees” are trees, shrubs, and all other woody vegetation on land lying between property lines on either side of all streets, avenues, or highways within the Village of Sunbury.
(n) “Topping” means the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three inches in diameter within the tree’s crown to such a degree so as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree.
(o) “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 the base: capable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branches trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(p) “Tree lawn” means that part of a street or highway right-of-way outside of the portion improved for travel, including the sidewalk and lawn area between the sidewalk and contiguous street or highway.
(Ord. 2008-30. Passed 10-15-08.)