A. “Business Day” - any weekday other than a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday which falls on a day other than a Saturday or Sunday.
C. “Exhibition of Speed” - a willful act of showing off or displaying a dangerous or imprudent speed in a vehicle on a highway where the presence of another person is known to the driver or may be reasonably anticipated by the driver. In order to constitute an exhibition of speed under this Chapter, there must be at least two (2) spectators present at the time of the offense.
D. “Highway” - a way or place of whatever nature, which is used or can be used by the public for vehicular travel. It does not include a facility which is specifically designed and legally maintained and operated for the purposes of speed contests or exhibitions of speed or specifically permitted for those purposes.
E. “Illegal Dumping” - the willful or intentional depositing, dropping, dumping, placing or throwing of any waste matter onto that portion of public or private property located within the City and which is not expressly designated by the City for the purpose of disposal of waste matter. “Illegal dumping” does not include the discarding of small quantities of waste matter related to consumer goods only and which are reasonably understood to be ordinarily carried on or about a person, including but not limited to, beverage containers and closures, packaging, wrappers, wastepaper, newspapers, magazines or other similar waste matter that escapes or is allowed to escape from a container, receptacle or package.
F. “Local Law Enforcement or Governmental Entities” - any city, charter city, county, or city and county, or the respective departments thereof, in this state.
G. “Nuisance” - shall have the same meaning as set forth in Civil Code Section 3479.
H. “Owner” - the last registered owner, the last legal owner and any then-existing lien holder of record as shown on the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles or similar state or federal agency, for any vehicle used for any of the nuisance activities subject to this Chapter.
I. “Speed Contest” - a contest or event where a vehicle is raced on a highway against another vehicle or a clock or other timing device. In order to constitute a speed contest under this Chapter, at least two (2) vehicles or at least two (2) spectators must be present at the event. An event where the time to cover a prescribed route of more than twenty (20) miles is measured, but where the vehicles does not exceed the speed limit is not a speed contest.
J. “Street Racing” - a speed contest or exhibition of speed as those terms are defined in this Chapter.
K. “Vehicle” - a vehicle as that term is defined in California Vehicle Code Section 670 and a motor vehicle as that term is defined in California Vehicle Code Section 415.
L. “Waste Matter” - any form of tangible matter described by any of the following categories:
1. All forms of garbage, refuse, rubbish, recyclable materials and solid waste as those terms are defined in Title 8 of this Code;
2. Dirt, solid rock, decomposed rock, gravel, sand or other aggregate material;
3. Abandoned or discarded furniture, or commercial or industrial or agricultural machinery, apparatus, structure or container; sports or athletic equipment; or any piece, portion or part thereof;
4. All forms of liquid waste not otherwise defined in or otherwise deemed to fall within the purview of Title 8 of this Code or Health and Safety Code Section 25117, including but not limited to, gray water, black water, water-based or oil-based paints; chemical solutions; non-potable water, except as specifically used for irrigation or construction; non-potable water contaminated with any substance rendering it unusable for irrigation or construction; oils, fuels, and other petroleum distillates or by-products;
5. Hazardous waste as that term is defined in Title 8 of this Code and in Health and Safety Code Section 25117;
6. Any form of biological waste not otherwise designated by this Code or other applicable laws as hazardous waste, including but not limited to bodily fluids, body parts, carcasses, and any associated container, enclosure or wrapping material used to dispose of such matter; and
7. Any physical substance used as an ingredient in any process, now known or hereafter developed or devised, to manufacture any controlled substance specified in Health and Safety Code Sections 11054, 11055, 11056, 11057, 11058 or their successor provisions or sections, or which is a by-product or result of any such manufacturing process.