For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herewith:
ARTHROPOD: Any of a large group of animals having a segmented body and legs, including insects, spiders, mites, scorpions and crustaceans.
VECTOR: An arthropod capable of carrying and transmitting diseases such as viral encephalitis, yellow fever and malaria.
VECTOR BORNE DISEASES: A group of diseases made up of organisms that spend part of their life inside a mosquito, flea, tick or other arthropod, and the other part of their life inside a vertebrate.
WEST NILE VIRUS: A vector borne disease similar to other encephalitises, cycled between birds and mosquitoes and transmitted to mammals, including man, by infected mosquitoes. (Ord. 1085, 6-14-2004)