Definitions for purposes of this chapter:
(a) "Service station" means any facility designed and constructed primarily for use in the retail sale of gasoline, other petroleum products and related accessories, except that it does not include any such facility that has been converted for use for another bona fide business purpose, on and after the date of commencement of such other use.
(b) "Abandoned service station" means any service station that has not been used primarily for the retail sale of gasoline, other petroleum products or related petroleum accessories for a continuous period of six months, whenever failure to reasonably secure station buildings from ready access by unauthorized persons and to reasonably maintain station's premises has resulted in conditions that endanger the public health, welfare, safety or morals; provided, that such conditions include, but are not limited to, the presence of defective or deteriorated electrical wiring, heating apparatus and gas connections, or of unprotected gasoline storage tanks, piping and valves, or any combination of the foregoing; and provided further that the casual and intermittent use of a service station for the retail sale of any item described in subsection (a) hereof during such six month period shall not be held to prevent the station from being determined an abandoned service station if it meets the other qualifications and criteria of this section.
(c) "Person" means any natural person, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association and any other legal entity.
(Ord. 131-1976. Passed 12-13-76.)