For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMUNITY DECAY. Rubble, debris, junk or refuse that has accumulated, resulting in conditions that are injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or obstructive to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
ENCLOSED AREAS. Any area inaccessible or not visible from six feet above the surface of the center of any public street, road or alley.
JUNK. Any metal, glass, paper, rags, wood, machinery parts, appliances or equipment parts, cloth or other waste or discarded material of any nature or substance whatsoever, or any scrap or salvage materials.
JUNK VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle, including component parts, that is not lawfully and validly licensed and remains inoperative and incapable of being driven. This includes motor vehicles with permanent registration that otherwise meet the criteria.
(MCA § 75-10-501(6))
PERSON. An individual, firm, partnership, company, association, corporation or organization of any kind.
PROPERTY. Any real property within the town or any town property, within or without the corporate limits, which is not a street or highway.
PUBLIC VIEW. Any area that can be seen from any point six feet above the surface of any public street, road or alley.
STREET, ALLEY or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every publicly maintained way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicle travel.
(Ord. 2021-01, passed 5-12-2022)