The following definitions shall be applicable in this Chapter:
(a) Agricultural Use. Any beekeeping, commercial feed lots, dairying, egg production, floriculture, fish or fur farming, forest and game management, grazing, livestock raising, orchards, plant greenhouses and nurseries, poultry raising, raising of grain, grass, mint and seed crops, raising of fruits, nuts and berries, sod farming, placing land in federal programs in return for payments in kind, owning land, at least thirty-five (35) acres of which is enrolled in the conservation reserve program under 16 USC 3831 to 3836, participating in the milk production termination program under 7 USC 1446(d), and vegetable raising.
(b) Appliance. Any household or office device, instrument, utensil, or apparatus or machine that utilizes power, including, but not limited to, any stove, washer, dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher, freezer, water heater, water pump, furnace, television set, home entertainment device, any computer or peripheral device or other electronic device.
(c) Building. Any building or structure or any portion of a building or structure.
(d) Debris. Any litter, junk, wood, bricks, paper, cement, concrete blocks, or any other unsightly accumulation of items or materials that may tend to depreciate property values in the adjacent or near area, create a blighted condition, present a substantial threat to public health or safety, create a public nuisance or public safety or health hazard, except when such items are determined by the Village Board, Village committee or other agent of the Village to be stored or housed out of public view and are not treated and maintained so as to be a public nuisance.
(e) Equipment. Goods used or bought for use primarily in a business or profession, including farming.
(f) Hazardous Waste. Any solid waste identified by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as hazardous under Sec. 291.05(2), Wis. Stats., or its successor provisions.
(g) Junk. Scrap metal, metal alloy, wood, concrete, synthetic or organic material, or any junked, inoperative, unlicensed, or unregistered motor vehicle structures, equipment, furniture, appliances, or machinery, or any part thereof. This definition of junk includes refuse, used tires, parts of dismantled buildings, agricultural use equipment not in usable condition, parts of agricultural use equipment, and contaminated recyclable material.
(h) Junked. Dismantled for parts or scrapped.
(i) Junkyard. Any place which is owned, maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, processing, buying or selling junk, including refuse dumps, garbage dumps, automobile graveyards, scrap metal processors, auto-wrecking yards, salvage yards, auto-recycling yards, used auto parts yards and temporary storage of automobile bodies or parts awaiting disposal as a normal part of a business operation when the business will continually have like materials located on the premises, and sanitary landfills. The definition does not include litter, trash, and other debris scattered along or upon the highway, or temporary operations and outdoor storage of limited duration.
(j) Local Zoning and Land Use Regulation. Any applicable Village zoning, subdivision, land division, platting, official map, building code, building permit, or other ordinance adopted pursuant to general police powers that is applicable in any manner to the use of land.
(k) Machinery. A device or assemblage of parts that transmits forces, motion or energy from one part to another in a predetermined way by electrical, mechanical or chemical means. "Machinery" does not include a building.
(I) Motor Vehicle. A vehicle, including a combination of two (2) or more vehicles or an articulated vehicle, that is self-propelled, except a vehicle operated exclusively on a rail, with or without a current and valid registration issued by the State of Wisconsin or other state to the owner of the vehicles. Includes the vehicles described in Subsection (u) below.
(m) Not Registered. In reference to all-terrain vehicles, as defined in Sec. 340.01(2g), Wis. Stats., "snowmobiles" as defined in Sec. 340.01(58a), Wis. Stats., or "boat" as defined in Sec. 29.001(16), Wis. Stats., are those that are required to, but do not have nor bear any current and valid State of Wisconsin registrations.
(n) Public Nuisance.
(1) Those acts, omissions, occupations, conditions, or uses of property that continue for such a length of time as to threaten, impair, or affect the health, welfare, comfort, or safety of the public including, but not limited to, causing the following impacts:
a. Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort, health, welfare, or safety of the public;
b. In any way render the public insecure in life or in the use of property;
c. Greatly offend the public morals or decency;
d. Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway, navigable body of water or other public way or the use of public property.
e. Any condition or use of premises or of building exteriors which is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which such premises are located.
f. Render the soil, water, air or any article of food or drink impure, noxious, unwholesome, or unhealthy.
g. In any way render the public health, welfare, comfort or safety insecure in life or in the use of property.
(2) Any condition or use of premises or of building exteriors which is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which such premises are located.
(o) Recyclable Material. Material that is suitable for recycling.
(p) Scrap Metal Processor. A fixed location at which machinery and equipment are utilized for the processing and manufacturing of iron, steel or nonferrous metallic scrap into prepared grades and whose principal product is scrap iron, scrap steel, or nonferrous metal scrap for sale for remelting purposes.
(q) Solid Waste. Any garbage, refuse, sludge, ash, paper, wood, metal, glass, cloth, plastic, lumber, concrete, food waste, and other organics, boxes, barrels, and other containers, tires, and other like materials. "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under Ch. 283, Wis. Stats., or source material, as defined in Secs. 254.31(1), Wis. Stats., special nuclear material as defined in Sec. 254.31(11), Wis. Stats., or byproduct material, as defined in Sec. 254.31(1), Wis. Stats. "Solid waste" includes paper, wood, metal, glass, cloth, plastic, lumber, concrete, food waste, and other organics, boxes, barrels, and other containers, tires and other like materials, debris and junk.
(r) Solid Waste Facility. A facility for solid waste treatment, solid waste storage or solid waste disposal, and includes commercial, industrial, municipal, state and federal establishments or operations such as, without limitation because of enumeration, sanitary landfills, dumps, land disposal sites, incinerators, transfer stations, storage facilities, collection and transportation services and processing, treatment and recovery facilities. This term includes the land where the facility is located. This term does not include a facility for the processing of scrap iron, steel or nonferrous metal using large machines to produce a principal product of scrap metal for sale or use for remelting purposes. This term does not include a facility which uses large machines to sort, grade, compact or bale clean wastepaper, fibers or plastics, not mixed with other solid waste, for sale or use for recycling purposes. This term does not include an auto junk yard or scrap metal salvage yard.
(s) Village Committee. A committee or commission established by the Village Board to address and aid in regulation of those uses and activities that may cause public nuisance or public health and safety threats in the Village of Edgar.
(t) Unlicensed or Unregistered. In reference to motor vehicles, mobile homes, manufactured homes, camper trailers, recreational vehicles, truck bodies, semi-trailers, or trailers, are those that are required for operation in the state, but do not have nor bear required current and valid State of Wisconsin licenses or registration.
(u) Vehicle. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported. "Vehicle includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Aircraft as defined in Sec. 29.001(16), Wis. Stats.
(2) All-Terrain vehicles as defined in Sec. 340.01(2g), Wis. Stats.
(3) Antique vehicles as described in Sec. 341.265, Wis. Stats.
(4) Automobiles as defined in Sec. 340.01(4), Wis. Stats.
(5) Boats as defined in Sec. 29.001(16), Wis. Stats.
(6) Camping trailers as defined in Sec. 340.01(6m), Wis. Stats.
(7) Farm equipment as defined in Sec. 100.47(1), Wis. Stats.
(8) Farm tractors as defined in Sec. 340.01(16), Wis. Stats.
(9) Hobbyist or homemade vehicles as defined in Sec. 341.268, Wis. Stats. (IO) Junk vehicles as defined in Sec. 340.01(25j), Wis. Stats.
(11) Implements of husbandry as defined in Sec. 340.01(24), Wis. Stats.
(12) Manufactured homes as defined in Sec. 101.91(2), Wis. Stats.
(13) Mobile homes as defined in Sec. 340.01(29), Wis. Stats.
(14) Mopeds as defined in Sec. 340.01(29m), Wis. Stats.
(15) Motor bicycles as defined in Sec. 340.01(30), Wis. Stats.
(16) Motor buses as defined in Sec. 340.01(31), Wis. Stats.
(17) Motor homes as defined in Sec. 340.01(33m), Wis. Stats.
(18) Motor trucks as defined in Sec. 340.01(34), Wis. Stats.
(19) Motorcycles as defined in Sec. 340.01(32), Wis. Stats.
(20) Railroad trains as defined in Sec. 340.01(48), Wis. Stats.
(21) Recreational vehicles as defined in Sec. 340.01(48r), Wis. Stats.
(22) Road machinery as defined in Sec. 340.01(52), Wis. Stats.
(23) Road tractors as defined in Sec. 340.01(53), Wis. Stats.
(24) Salvage vehicles as defined in Sec. 340.01(55g), Wis. Stats.
(25) School buses as defined in Sec. 340.01(56), Wis. Stats.
(26) Semi trailers as defined in Sec. 340.01(57), Wis. Stats.
(27) Snowmobiles as defined in Sec. 340.01(58), Wis. Stats.
(28) Special interest vehicles as defined in Sec. 341.266, Wis. Stats.
(29) Trailers as defined in Sec. 340.01(71), Wis. Stats.
(30) Truck tractors as defined in Sec. 340.01(73), Wis. Stats.
(31) Unlicensed demolition motor vehicles, unlicensed racing motor vehicles, and go carts, garden tractors, riding lawn mowers, and other motorized tractors, motorized carts, and motorized utility vehicles that require no registration or licensure by the State of Wisconsin.
(v) Wild Animal. Any animal of a wild nature that is normally found in the wild and that is not a domestic animal.