For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"AUTOMOBILE PARTS." Any portion or parts of any motor driven vehicle as detached from the vehicle as a whole.
"CONSTRUCTION OR DEMOLITION ACTIVITY." The erection (including excavation), demolition, alternation, or repair of any building, structure or roadway, or any utility related construction, for which all necessary and proper government permits have been obtained.
"DWELLING." Any part of any building or its premises used as a place of residence or habitation or for sleeping by any person.
"HIGHWAY." Any road, street, avenue, alley, boulevard, lane, court, or bridge, viaduct, or trestle and the approaches to them.
"INOPERATIVE CONDITION." Unable to move under its own power due to defective or missing parts, and which has remained in such condition for a period of not less than ten consecutive days.
"MOTOR VEHICLE." Any style or type of motor driven vehicle used for the conveyance of persons or property.
"NOISE." The intensity, frequency, duration and character of sound or sounds from a source or sources.
"NUISANCE." Public nuisance.
"PARKING LOTS." Any off-street parking facility for public use, and the approaches to same, whether publicly or privately owned, and shall include but not be limited to parks, shopping centers, restaurants, entertainment centers, car washes, banking or financial institutions, whether publicly or privately owned, operated or controlled.
"PERSON." Any person, firm, association, partnership, joint venture, corporation or any private entity of any nature.
"PLAINLY AUDIBLE." Capable of being distinctly heard by a person with normal hearing.
"ROADWAY." That portion of the highway designed for ordinary use for vehicular travel, including the berm, shoulder or any public property adjacent thereto.
"SCRAP METAL." Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum, or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or any other material, whether intact or in parts, which has served its usefulness in its original form and can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose.
"SOLID WASTE." Any garbage, refuse, sludge and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining waste, coal mining by-products, refuse and overburden), and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges.
"UNFIT FOR FURTHER USE." In a dangerous condition; having defective or missing parts; or in such a condition generally as to be unfit for its originally intended purpose.
"UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION." Dangerous or detrimental to life or health because of: want of repair, defects in the drainage, plumbing, lighting, ventilation, or construction; infection with contagious disease; or the existence on the premises of an unsanitary condition likely to cause sickness among occupants of the dwelling.
"UNREASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME." A period of time in excess of that necessary to accomplish:
(1) A danger warning with a horn or other audible signaling device; or
(2) The preservation or protection of property or the life, safety or welfare of a person or persons by use of an audible signaling device.
"UNREASONABLY LOUD, HARSH OR EXCESSIVE NOISE." Any noise plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet from its point of origination or emanation.
"VEHICLE." Any machine or device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on any highway, roadway or parking lot.
(Ord. 452, passed 12-11-90; Am. Ord. 729, passed 8-24-01; Am. Ord. B2005-20, passed 6-28-05)