Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22000. Section 22000.
This part may be cited as the Tree Planting Act of 1931.
CHAPTER 1. General Provisions [22000. - 22014.]
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in effectCal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22001. Section 22001.
This part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22002. Section 22002.
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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22003. Section 22003.
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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22004. Section 22004.
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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22005. Section 22005.
“City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22006. Section 22006.
“Improvement” includes the planting, maintenance, or removal of trees, and any and all acts necessarily incident thereto.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22007. Section 22007.
“City council” and “council” include any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22008. Section 22008.
“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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22009. Section 22009.
“Tree” includes all varieties of trees, shrubs and other ornamental vegetation.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22010. Section 22010.
“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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22011. Section 22011.
“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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22012. Section 22012.
“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.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22013. Section 22013.
“Tax collector” includes any body, board, bureau or officer charged with the duty of collecting assessments for a city.
Cal. Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 22014. Section 22014.
No publication or notice other than that provided for in this part shall be necessary to give validity to any proceedings had hereunder.
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