For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING. Any business, residential structure, and non-business building or structure.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimination of insects or rodents by eliminating their harborage, by removing or by making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, and by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal insect or rodent control method approved by the Mayor.
GARBAGE. The putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, processing, preparing, cooking, or serving of food.
INFESTATION. The presence of any insects or rodents of such kind or in such numbers as to create a potential health hazard or nuisance.
INSECT AND RODENT HARBORAGE. Any condition which provides shelter or protection for insects and rodents; thus, favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under, outside a structure or premise.
INSECTS. Members of Class Insecta and such other members of the Phylum Arthropoda as may be considered dangerous or pestiferous by the Mayor.
MAYOR. The Mayor or his designated representative.
OCCUPANT. The individual, partnership, or corporation that has the use of or occupies any building or a fraction thereof, whether the actual owner or tenant of said building. In the case of a vacant building or any vacant portion of a building lot, the owner, lessee, agent or custodian shall have the responsibilities of an occupant.
OWNER. The actual owner of the building, lot, whether individual, partnership or corporation. In the case of a leased building with a clause in the lease specifying that the lessee is responsible for maintenance and repair, the lessee will be considered in such cases as the owner for the purpose of this article.
PERSON. An individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust, corporation, government corporation, department, bureau, agency, or any entity recognized by law.
REFUSE. Combustible and non-combustible waste material, except garbage, and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, plastics, glass crockery, dust, industrial waste, dead animals, and animal excrement.
RODENT PROOFING. A form of construction to prevent the ingress of rodents into or under buildings or structures from the exterior or from one building or structure to another. It consists essentially of the closing of all openings in the exterior walls, ground or first floors, basements and foundations, that may be reached by rodents from the ground by climbing or by burrowing, with materials or other types of rodent proofing methods approved by the Mayor.
RODENTS. Members of the Order Rodentia and such members of the Order Lagomorpha as may be considered dangerous or pestiferous by the Mayor.
('74 Code, § 6-18-2) (Ord. 2028; Am. Ord. 80-1977)