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Chapter 1. General Provisions of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 15. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 1.
This part may be cited as the Tree Planting Act of 1931.
This part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its
purposes.
This part provides an alternative system for the planting,
maintaining or removing of trees in cities, and the provisions of
this part shall not apply to or affect any other provisions of this
code. When any proceedings are commenced under this part, the
provisions of this part and no other shall apply to all such
proceedings.
Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise
requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this
chapter shall govern the construction of this part.
The city charter of any city adopting the provisions of this
part shall control if any provision of this part is contrary to or
in conflict with the charter, or if any provision of the charter
requires any matter or thing specified in this part to be done in a
particularly described manner.
"City" includes all corporations organized and existing for
municipal purposes.
"Improvement" includes the planting, maintenance, or removal
of trees, and any and all acts necessarily incident thereto.
"City council" and "council" include any body which by law
is the legislative department of the government of the city.
"Board" means a board of park commissioners, park
department, or other similar municipal authority, whether composed of
one or more individuals, having control of or jurisdiction over, or
charged with the duty of superintending, directing, planting,
maintaining, removing and otherwise caring for the parks, trees,
shrubs and vegetation within a city.
"Tree" includes all varieties of trees, shrubs and other
ornamental vegetation.
"Street" means all or any portion of territory within a city
set apart and designated for the use of the public as a thoroughfare
for travel, and includes the sidewalks, the center and the side
plots thereof.
"Lot line" means the boundary line separating that portion
of a lot or parcel of land set apart for individual use and occupancy
from the street.
"Maintain" or any of its variants when used in reference to
trees includes clipping, spraying, fertilizing, irrigating, propping,
treating for disease or injury, and other similar acts which promote
the life, growth, health and beauty of trees.
"Tax collector" includes any body, board, bureau or officer
charged with the duty of collecting assessments for a city.
No publication or notice other than that provided for in
this part shall be necessary to give validity to any proceedings had
hereunder.
