California Streets and Highways Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 22000.
  This part may be cited as the Tree Planting Act of 1931.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• Section 22001.
  This part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• 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...
• 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.(Added...
• 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...
• Section 22005.
  “City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• Section 22006.
  “Improvement” includes the planting, maintenance, or removal of trees, and any and all acts necessarily incident thereto.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 169.)
• Section 22007.
  “City council” and “council” include any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• 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...
• Section 22009.
  “Tree” includes all varieties of trees, shrubs and other ornamental vegetation.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 22013.
  “Tax collector” includes any body, board, bureau or officer charged with the duty of collecting assessments for a city.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• 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.(Added by Stats....

Last modified: October 22, 2018