§ 70-4. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Maintenance includes all operations of trimming, pruning, spraying, injecting, fertilizing, treating, bracing, doing surgery work, cutting above or below the ground.

Public area includes all public land, easements and rights-of-way owned or held by the town, including easements and rights-of-way for streets, alleys, sidewalks, median strips and other town facilities. This includes public areas having individual names, all areas owned by the town or to which the public has free access as a park, public access, and other properties controlled and maintained by the town.

Street tree means any tree within a public right-of-way.

Tree and/or shrub includes all woody vegetation presently or hereafter planted in any public area.

Tree board means Pine Knoll Shores Community Appearance Committee whose purpose is expanded to include the short- and long-range management of trees within public street rights-of-way, town-owned property, and other public property in the town.

(Code 2001, § 22-2; Ord. No. 2010-22, § III, 11-9-2010)