(a) “Camp” or “camping” or “encampment” means use of property for the purpose of unauthorized overnight occupancy, or to reside or dwell in a place, on public property with shelter overnight, or the use of public property for the purpose of overnight occupancy or longer occupancy. “Camping” does not include napping during the day or picnicking. “Camp” or “camping” or “encampment” can include using a vehicle for overnight occupancy, where overnight occupancy or overnight camping violates the Greenville Municipal Code, a City rule or regulation, or is not otherwise authorized by the City. Evidence of unauthorized camps or unauthorized encampments or unauthorized camping includes, but is not limited to:
(1) Sleeping, or preparing to sleep by laying out personal belongings, bedding, bedroll(s), blanket(s), sleeping pad(s), sleeping bag(s); or
(2) Erecting or occupying a tent, makeshift shelter, lean-to, tarpaulin, enclosure, other structure used for human habitation, or any form of cover or protection from the elements other than clothing; or
(3) Preparing for a fire, or making fire, or an active fire, or setting up or using a camp stove, or cooking device (inclusive of fire pits, barbeques, hibachi grills, and other similar devices).
(b) “Public property” means, by way of illustration, but not limited to, a highway, highway median, any street, street median, road, road median, alley, sidewalk, strips of land between streets and sidewalks, lanes, catch basins, pedestrian or transit mall, bike path, greenway, public parking lot, or any other structure or area encompassed within the public right-of-way; any park, parkway, mountain park, open space, natural area, trail, beach, playground, or other publicly owned recreation facility; a municipal watercourse, bodies of water, watercourses, stormwater infrastructure such as, but not limited to, bridges, pipes, inlets and culverts; or any other grounds, buildings, or other facilities owned or leased by the city or by any other public entity, regardless of whether such public property is vacant or occupied and actively used for any public purpose.
(c) “Reside or dwell” includes, without limitation, conducting such activities as eating, sleeping, preparing to sleep, or the storage of personal possessions.
(d) “Shelter” includes, without limitation, any tent, tarpaulin, lean-to, sleeping bag, bedroll, blankets, or any form of cover or protection from the elements other than clothing.
(e) “Watercourse” means a channel, natural depression, slough, artificial channel, gulch, arroyo, stream, creek, pond, reservoir, or lake into which storm runoff and flood water flows either regularly or infrequently, including major drainage ways for carrying storm runoff.
(Ord. 22-102. Passed 9-6-22.)