For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. Any drug, substance, or immediate precursor, as listed in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 11000 et seq.
DRUG-RELATED NUISANCE. Any activity related to the possession, sale, use or manufacture of a controlled substance that creates an unreasonable interference with the comfortable enjoyment of life, property and/or safety of residents of the premises. Such activity includes, but is not limited to, any activity commonly associated with illegal drug dealing, such as noise, steady traffic, day and night, to a particular unit, barricaded units, the display or observance of weapons, drug loitering as defined in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11532, or other drug-related occurrences which, taken as a whole, tend to substantially affect or interference with any tenant's beneficial use and enjoyment of any rented property.
GANG-RELATED CRIME. Any crime in which the perpetrator is a known member of a gang, or any crime motivated by gang membership in which the victim or the intended victim of the crime is a known member of a gang.
ILLEGAL DRUG ACTIVITY. A violation of any of the provisions of the Cal. Health & Safety Code Ch. 6, §§ 11350 et seq. or Chapter 6.5, §§ 11400 et seq., or any successor provisions thereto.
LANDLORD. Any owner of record, lessor, or sublessor, (including any person, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity) who receives or is entitled to receive rent for the use of any rental unit, or the agent, representative or successor of any of the foregoing.
PREMISES. Any rental unit and the land on which it and any other buildings of a complex are located and common areas, including but not limited to, garage facilities, streets, alleyways, stairwells, elevators, and, as the context permits or requires, any public or private property which is immediately adjacent to any of such areas.
RENTAL UNIT. Any dwelling leased or rented, including, but not limited to, any single and multi-family residence, duplex, apartment, apartment hotel, apartment house and/or condominium in the city. This term shall also include any mobile home, whether rent is paid for the mobile home, the land upon which the mobile home is located, or both. It shall also mean any recreational vehicle, as defined in Cal. Civ. Code § 799.24, if located in a mobile home park or recreational vehicle park, whether rent is paid for the recreational vehicle, the land upon which it is located, or both.
TENANT. Any tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee or any person entitled to use or occupancy of a rental unit, or any other person residing in the rental unit.
(Ord. 1275, passed 5-17-00)