The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ABANDONED NEWSRACK. Any newsrack which remains empty of the owners’ publication or unserviced for:
(1) Four consecutive days for a daily publication;
(2) Eight consecutive days for a weekly publication;
(2) Sixteen consecutive days for a biweekly publication; and
(3) Thirty-four consecutive days for a monthly publication.
BUSINESS DAYS. Monday through Friday, excluding any legal holiday observed by the city.
CITY. The City of Fort Worth, Texas.
CITY MANAGER. The Fort Worth City Manager or his or her designated assistant city manager.
CROSSWALK. That part of a roadway, whether marked or unmarked, which is included with the extension of the sidewalk lines between opposite sides of the roadway at an intersection.
DEPARTMENT. The city’s department of planning and development for permitting purposes and the city’s department of code compliance for enforcement purposes.
DIRECTOR. The director the department of planning and development or the director of code compliance, as applicable, or their designees.
DISTRIBUTOR. The person responsible for placing and maintaining a newsrack in a public-right-of-way, parkway or sidewalk.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company organization or legal entity of any kind.
NEWSRACK. Any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit or other dispenser installed, used or maintained for the display and sale or distribution, with or without charge, of newspapers, news periodicals, news publications, printed news material, commercial literature or other publications.
OBSCENE. Material that depicts or describes sexual conduct that is objectionable or offensive to accepted standards of decency which the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interests; or material which depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law, and taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entirety of any public street area, including the public roadway and adjacent pedestrian ways and shall include, but not be limited to, roadways, parkways, alleys and sidewalks.
PARKWAY. The area between the sidewalk and the curb of any street and where there is not sidewalk, the area between the edges of the roadway the property line adjacent to the roadway. PARKWAY shall also include any area within a roadway that is not open to vehicular traffic.
SIDEWALK. All that area or surface provided for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
UNSERVICED. Any newsracks which does not contain the most current owners publication.
(Ord. 17529, § 1, passed 5-1-2007, eff. 9-1-2007)