(a) This chapter shall apply only in a Class 2 municipality.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-72-1
property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) It is hereby declared that the trees on private property and in publicly owned areas within a Class 2 municipality, including particularly those in street rights-of-way, are both an economic and an aesthetic asset to the Class 2 municipality and the State of Alabama; that the existing trees so located are in need of protection and of active measures to support their health and growth, that it is desirable that additional trees be planted, and that those ends require a separate entity specifically charged with the responsibility and duty of fostering the planting, growth, and protection of trees on private property and publicly owned areas.
