The following definitions shall apply:
A. Appeals Board. The Planning Commission of the City of Fullerton is designated to act as the Appeals Board in cases of abatement of dangerous buildings and determinations of the Public Nuisance Hearing Officer.
B. "Highway" means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes streets and alleys.
C. "Nuisance" means anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of a navigable lake or river, bay stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway.
D. "Private nuisance" means every nuisance not applicable to Section 6.01.020(E) of this chapter.
E. "Public nuisance" means any nuisance affecting, at the same time, an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.
F. "Public Nuisance Hearing Officer" means the City Manager or his designee.
G. "Public right-of-way" means any place of any nature which is dedicated to use by the public for pedestrian and vehicular travel, and includes, but is not limited to, a street, sidewalk, curb, gutter, crossing, intersection, parkway, highway, alley, lane, mall, court, way, avenue, road, bridge, thoroughfare, park, and any other similar public way.
H. "Vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, except a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
I. “Bee” means any stage of the common domestic honey bee (Apis Mellifera species).
J. “Beekeeping (residential)” means the keeping or maintenance of an apiary in a hive as an accessory use.
K. “Bee hive” means a structure for the housing of a bee colony.
L. “Hive” means a collection of bees with one queen. This can be anywhere from a few hundred bees to many thousand bees.
M. “Requeen” means to replace the queen bee in a colony with a younger queen, a common practice in beekeeping to prevent bee swarming.
N. “Swarm” means a group of bees in a transitional state leaving their original hive, clustering and then leaving again to establish a new hive in a new cavity.
(Ord. 3255 § 1 (part), 2018; Ord. 2969 § 2 (part), 2000).