For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Building Superintendent. The director of planning and permitting.
Cut. To clear, trim, shape, separate, divide, sever, shorten, reduce, curtail, slash, or to otherwise control and dispose of weeds on property; provided that weeds may be disposed of by incineration in accordance with the fire code.
Garbage. All animal and vegetable matter, such as waste material and refuse from kitchens, residences, grocery stores, butcher shops, restaurants, cafes, drugstores, hotels, and rooming and boarding houses, and other deleterious substances.
Owner. The fee simple owner, lessee of record, administrator, administratrix, executor, executrix, receiver, trustee, property management agent, or any other individual who has control or possession of privately owned real property.
Property. Real property and applies to:
(1) Any privately owned or government-owned lot abutting either side of a privately owned or government-owned street that is open to the public; provided that this article does not apply to real property located within the agricultural, country, or preservation zoning districts; and
(2) Privately owned lots located within a residential zoning district and situated within 200 feet of a developed residential zoning lot.
Remove. To move, displace, shift, take away, haul, or otherwise transfer garbage, trash, and waste from property; provided that trash may be disposed of by incineration in accordance with the Fire Code.
Trash. Rubbish such as feathers, ashes, tin cans, paper, rags, boxes, and glass.
Waste. Any object, substance, or thing, of whatever kind of character, which for any reason, may be or may have been thrown away, discarded, or abandoned such as, but not limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(1) Refrigerators, ranges, furniture, fixtures, and other similar household items;
(2) Vehicles, machinery, farm equipment, construction equipment, scrap iron of all kinds, or any other similar item;
(3) Debris from demolished structures or buildings;
(4) Bulky wastes discharged by mercantile, industrial, and other establishments; and
(5) All garbage and trash other than defined above.
Weeds. Vegetation of that has reached such a stage of growth, and that is present in such quantity, that it constitutes a substantial risk of one or more of the following hazards:
(1) The vegetation, when dry, is or will be a fire hazard;
(2) The vegetation is, or is naturally suited as, a sheltering or breeding place for rats, mice, mosquitoes, or other vermin or noxious pests;
(3) The vegetation overgrows or spreads upon or over any privately owned or government-owned road, alley, path, sidewalk, beach, or park that is open to the public to the extent that the vegetation obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the safe or convenient use or maintenance thereof;
(4) The vegetation has grown or spread, or has fallen or may fall, into any privately owned or controlled stream, ditch, sewer, canal, or other waterway, resulting in the obstruction or narrowing of the channel or impeding the flow of water;
(5) The vegetation attracts or obscures illegal activity, such as trespassing; or
(6) The vegetation has grown or spread, or has fallen or may fall, into any adjacent privately owned or government-owned property to the extent that the vegetation obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the safe or convenient use or maintenance thereof.
(Sec. 13-29.2, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 41, Art. 10, § 41-10.2) (Am. Ords. 91-60, 96-58, 07-10, 18-7, 22-5)