§ 522.03 ADMINISTRATION OF TREE PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.

• Administration. The Village Administrator and/or their designee with recommendation from Tree Advisory Board shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and designate the Village department(s) which shall carry out any provisions requiring village action.
• Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

DAMAGE – any injury to or destruction of a tree, including but not limited to: uprooting; severance of all or part the root system or main trunk; storage of material on or compaction of surrounding soil; a substantial change in the natural grade above a root system or around a trunk; surrounding the tree with impervious paving materials; or any trauma caused by accident or collision.

INTERSECTION TRIANGE - Is a sight triangle along the boundary of each of the intersecting curb lines. Sight triangles vary depending upon the type of street.

NUISANCE – any tree, or limb thereof, that has an infectious disease or insect; is dead or dying; obstructs the view of traffic signs or the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or threatens public health, safety and welfare.

PARKWAY – the area along a public street between the curb and the sidewalk; or if there is no curb or sidewalk, the unpaved portion of the area between the street right-of-way line and the paved portion of the street or alley.

PERSON - Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.

PROPERTY OWNER - The person owning such property as shown by the County Auditor's Plat of the Village of Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.

PUBLIC PLACES(Property) - Shall include all other grounds owned or controlled by the Village of Ashville.

PUBLIC TREES - Shall include all trees now or hereafter growing on any public places.

RIGHT-OF-WAY - A strip of land dedicated for use as a public roadway or dedicated for public use.  In addition to the roadway, a right-of-way normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, drainage facilities and utilities and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.

SHRUB - 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.

STREET or HIGHWAY - 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.

TREE - A tall growing woody plant with one of more perennial main stems or trunk which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than from the base; capable of being pruned to at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.

TREE TOP or TOPPING - The non-standard practice of cutting back of limbs to stubs of three inches or more in diameter within a tree’s crown to such a degree to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree.

TREELAWN - That part of a street or highway, lying between the sidewalk and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic.