Jackson County, MO Tree Protection: Heritage & Protected Trees (2026)

Site - The traditional, documented, or legendary location of an event, occurrence, action, or Structure significant in the life or lives of a person, persons, groups, or tribe, or any place with evidence of past human activity. Sites include, but are not limited to, cemeteries, burial grounds, occupation and work areas, evidence of farming or hunting and gathering, battlefields, settlements, estates, gardens, groves, river crossings, routes and trails, caves, quarries, mines, or significant trees or other plant life. See Historic Site.

Stabilization -- The act or process of applying measures designed to re-establish a weather resistant enclosure and the structural stability of an unsafe or deteriorated property while maintaining the essential form as it exists.

Stop Work Order - An order of the County Executive directing an owner, occupant, 15 or County department, employee, agency, contractor, or subcontractor to halt an action for which a Certificate of Appropriateness is required, and notifying the owner, occupant, contractor, or subcontractor of the application process for a Certificate of Appropriateness. A Stop Work Order is also issued to stop work that is being done contrary to the provisions of a Certificate of Appropriateness.

Structure - Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent or