As used in this chapter:
(a) “Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind.
(b) "Street" or "highway" means the entire width of every public way or right of way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
(c) "Park" includes all public parks having individual names.
(d) "Public places" includes all grounds owned by the Village.
(e) "Property line" means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(f) "Tree lawn" or "street lawn area" means that area lying between the curb and the street right-of-way line, i.e. the sidewalk, where one exists, and to the end of the right-of-way line, where no sidewalk exists.
(g) "Public trees" includes all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street or any public areas where otherwise indicated.
(h) "Principal thoroughfare" means any street upon which trucks are not prohibited.
(i) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the records of the Recorder's Office of Lorain County, Ohio.
(j) "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.
(k) "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. (Ord. 2017-31. Passed 9-5-17.)