For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
COMMUNITY DECAY: Any public nuisance created by allowing rubble, debris, junk, refuse, landscaping debris or other matter to accumulate, resulting in conditions that are injurious to health, are indecent, are offensive to the senses, or which obstruct the free use and enjoyment of adjacent property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or the values of property. This definition does not apply to properly permitted construction and/or demolition projects during the time any necessary permits are in effect. This definition does not include persons servicing, manufacturing, or processing materials, goods or products on lots in public view, so long as the materials used in the normal operations of the business are neatly stacked or piled. This definition does not include normal residential maintenance or landscaping projects.
COMPONENT PART: Any identifiable part of a discarded, ruined, wrecked, or dismantled motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, fenders, doors, hoods, engine blocks, motor parts, transmissions, frames, axles, wheels, tires, and passenger compartment fixtures.
DEPARTMENT: The director of public works or his designated representative to enforce this chapter.
JUNK VEHICLE: A discarded, ruined, wrecked, or dismantled motor vehicle, including component parts, that is not lawfully and validly licensed and remains inoperative or incapable of being driven.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association, corporation, city, town or other entity, whether organized for profit or not.
PUBLIC NUISANCE: Any nuisance which affects, 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.
PUBLIC VIEW: Any area visible from a point up to six feet (6') above the surface of the center of a public roadway or right of way.
SHIELDING: Any natural barriers, fencing or other manmade barriers used to conceal a facility from public view. All shielding barriers must conform with all local zoning, planning, building and protective covenant requirements. All shielding barriers shall be of sufficient height and density to conceal any violation on the premises from public view. This definition is not intended to require that permanent buildings, utility poles or other similar structures be shielded. (Ord. 2010-07, 4-6-2010)