Section 4799.09.

As used in this chapter the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) "Disadvantaged community" means a community with a median household income less than 80 percent of the statewide average.

(b) "Severely disadvantaged community" means a community with a median household income less than 60 percent of the statewide average.

(c) "Urban forestry" means the cultivation and management of native or introduced trees and related vegetation in urban areas for their present and potential contribution to the economic, physiological, sociological, and ecological well-being of urban society.

(d) "Urban forest" means those native or introduced trees and related vegetation in the urban and near-urban areas, including, but not limited to, urban watersheds, soils and related habitats, street trees, park trees, residential trees, natural riparian habitats, and trees on other private and public properties.

(e) "Urban area" means an urban place, as that term is defined by the United States Department of Commerce, of 2,500 or more persons.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 271, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2011.)