As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
One whose property touches or adjoins along a border, or
with a projecting part, the property of another. The Village Board
is the designated agency of the Village of Scottsville under whose
jurisdiction the trees, shrubs, bushes, and all other woody plants
on public property fall.
The area directly below the canopy of the tree out from the
trunk to the greatest extent of the branches.
Including but not restricted to: large areas of dieback of
the canopy, and poor live crown ratio (e.g., less than 30%), dead
and decaying wood in trunk, sparse live canopy, substantial epicormic
growth on branches and trunk, substantial insect attack, multiple
areas of wood decay lesions in branches and trunk.
The Forestry Board is created pursuant to General Municipal
Law § 20. The Forestry Board shall be an advisory board
to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Scottsville.
The entire width of every public way or right-of-way when
part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right,
for the purposes of vehicular, bicycle or pedestrian traffic.
Those species which habitually or at maturity attain a height
of 45 feet or more.
Those species which habitually or at maturity attain a height
of 30 to 45 feet.
A written or verbal announcement as given by authority of
the Village.
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, organization, or entity of any kind.
The person owning such property within the Village of Scottsville,
as shown by the Town of Wheatland Tax Assessor's records, unless
proof to the contrary is available.
A condition of any tree, shrub, bush or other woody plant,
or any substantial portion of a tree, shrub, bush or woody plant,
which constitutes a hazard to life and property or harbors insects
or disease which constitutes a potential threat to other trees, shrubs,
bushes or woody plants within the Village.
All property owned, leased, or occupied by the Village of
Scottsville or any of its administrative agencies or departments.
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.
All trees, shrubs, bushes, and woody vegetation on public
property, including Village parks and rights-of-way.
Those species which habitually or at maturity attain a height
of 30 feet or less. Such trees shall be planted underneath where three-phase
and single-phase electrical wires exist.
The entire width of every public way or right-of-way when
part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right,
for the purposes of vehicular, bicycle or pedestrian traffic.
Trees, shrubs, bushes, and all other woody vegetation on
land lying within public rights-of-way, streets, avenues, sidewalk,
public ways, and public property within the Village.
Including, but not restricted to: obvious instability of
root plate, such as evidence of soil heave, loss of structural roots,
root decay, poor structural integrity of trunk due to significant
wood decay, large cavities, internal cracking, poor large branch attachments
such as severe bark inclusions, poor attachment of regrowth after
lopping and/or storm damage.
The severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three
inches in diameter within a tree's crown to such a degree as
to remove the normal canopy and which disfigures the tree.
A tree which is 25 to 35 years old.
The physical apparatus which comprises, delivers, and supplies
the following systems: gas, electric, water, cable television, internet,
telephone, sanitary sewer, and stormwater.
Shall refer to Village employees and/or elected officials
with specific authority under this chapter.
Trees, shrubs, plants, and any other vegetation with a woody
stem.
