916.01 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this chapter the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural include the singular, and words in the singular include the plural. The word "shall" is mandatory and not merely directory:
(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 use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and shall include alleys.
(c) "Public places" include all other grounds owned by the City.
(d) "Property line" means the outer edge of a street or highway.
(e) "Property owner" means the person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the City of Whitehall, Franklin County, Ohio.
(f) "Treelawn" means that part of a street or highway not covered by sidewalk or other paving, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.
(g) "Public trees" mean all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street, highway or any public places.
(h) "Large trees" mean those attaining a height of forty-five feet or more.
(i) "Medium trees" mean those attaining a height of thirty to forty-five feet.
(j) "Small trees" mean those attaining a height of twenty feet to thirty feet.
(k) "Shrub" means a low growing woody plant with several perennial stems instead of one (1) trunk, producing branches, shoots or multiple stems from or near the base of the plant.
(l)"Evergreen" means any tree that retains its green living foliage the entire year.
(m) "Principal thoroughfare" means any street upon which trucks are not prohibited. (Ord. 57-91. Passed 8-6-91.)