§ 196-2. Definitions.  


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  • 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.