§ 196-2. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases and words shall have the following meanings:

APPLICANT

The owner, contract vendee or lessee of real property or its duly authorized agent.

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION

The Environmental Commission of the Incorporated Village of Old Westbury or its successor.

HABITAT

The natural growing characteristics of any tree or specimen tree, which includes branch spread and distribution, branch height above ground and root spread and distribution.

PERSON

Any resident of Old Westbury or any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, public agency, public utility or organization of any kind or agent thereof.

REAL PROPERTY

Includes all unimproved and improved real property within the Incorporated Village of Old Westbury.

SPECIMEN TREE

Any living, woody plant of the following species:

A. 

Deciduous trees.

Ash (Fraxinus), all species

Beech (Fagus), American species and European species and its cultivars

Birch (Betula), all species, six inches diameter or more

Black locust (Robinia pseudo-acacia)

Coffee-tree (Gymnocladus dioica)

Elm (Umus), American and English species

Flowering cherry (Prunus), any Japanese species or cultivar, six inches in diameter or more

Flowering crabapple (Malus), any species or named cultivar, six inches in diameter or more

Flowering dogwood (Comus), American or Chinese species, six inches in diameter or more

Hawthorn (Crataegus), any species or named cultivar, six inches in diameter or more

Hickory (Carya), any species

Honey locust (Gleditsia), any named cultivir (not the species)

Hornbeam (Carpinus), all species, six inches in diameter or more

Horse chestnut (Aesculus), all species

Japanese maple, four inches in diameter or more

Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

Linden (Tifia), all species and cultivars

Magnolia (Magnolia), all species, six inches in diameter or more

Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba)

Maple (Acer), all species and cultivars other than box elder (Acer negundo)

Mountain ash (Sorbus), any species, six inches in diameter or more

Oak (Quercus), all species

Phellodendron amurense, six inches in diameter or more

Plane-tree (Platanus), both American and London planes

Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)

Serviceberry (Amelmichier), all species

Sorrell tree or sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum), six inches

Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)

Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), also known as "black gum," "sour-gum" and "pepperidge"

Walnut (Juglaris nigra)

Yellowwood (Cladrastis lutea), six inches in diameter or more

Zelkova (Zelkova japonica)

B. 

Evergreen trees.

Arbor vitae (Thuja occidentalis), American arbor vitae Cedar (Cedrus), all species

Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)

False cypress (Chamaecyparis), all species and cultivars

Firs (Abies), al species

Hemlock (Tsuga), Canadian and Carolina species and cultivars, six inches

Holly (Ilex), all species, six inches in diameter or more

Pines (Pinus), all species

Spruce (Picea), all species

Yew (Taxus), all species, hybrids and cultivars

C. 

Shrubs, evergreen.

Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), four inches in diameter or more Rhododendron (Rhododendron), all species, hybrids and cultivars, four inches in diameter or more

SUBSTANTIAL ALTERATION

Any cutting or drastic pruning or elevating the habitat of a tree or specimen tree which impairs, destroys or endangers the life of such tree or specimen tree or its natural symmetry, and shall include but shall not be limited to heavy or unnecessary cutting of top branches and cutting of major lower limbs.