Section 12.16.020 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning
ascribed to them
in this section:
"Abutting owner" means an owner whose real property lies adjacent
to a public right-of-way.
"Arboricultural treatment" means all services, treatments or operations
involving trimming,
pruning, spraying, injecting, fertilizing, cabling, surgery work, removal of and cutting above or
below ground level of a tree.
"Board" means the city of Hamilton parks board.
"City" means the city of Hamilton, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
"Council" means the city council of the city of Hamilton.
"Damage" means any action which may cause death, destruction or injury
to any tree or
vegetation, or which places any tree or vegetation in a hazardous condition or in an irreversible
state of decline including but not limited to topping, girding or poisoning.
"Department" means the city of Hamilton parks and recreation department.
"Director" means the director of the city of Hamilton parks and recreation
or his/her
designee.
"Owner" means the owner of real property as shown in the records of
the Ravalli county
clerk and recorder.
"Person" means any public or private individual, firm, business, partnership,
association,
utility, corporation, legal entity and/or agent, employee or representative thereof.
"Property" means all real property within the boundaries of the city
of Hamilton.
"Public area" means all public right-of-ways, public parks and other
lands owned or leased
by the city of Hamilton, unless the context of a specific provision expressly applies to other
public lands as well.
"Public right-of-way" means the entire width between the dedicated
boundaries of all public
streets, roads, boulevards, alleys and includes all sidewalks and public parking strips located
within any such boundaries. "Tree" means any perennial plant or grove
of plants growing on
public land, right-of-way or private property, having a self-supporting
woody main stem or trunk usually characterized by the ability to grow to considerable height and
size and the development of woody branches at some distance above the ground.
"Utility" means a public or private utility and includes any pipeline
corporation, gas
corporation, electrical corporation, telephone or other communications corporation, water, sewer
or heat corporation the services of which are performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the
general public or any portion thereof.
"Vegetation" means any type of weeds, grass, shrubs, plants and any
other vegetation with a
woody stem. (Ord. 195 (part), 2002)
