For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHRONIC VIOLATOR. A person who owns property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the city took remedial action at least three times under any of its Community Appearance Standards Code.
JUNK. Any item which has a resale or salvage value or does not have a resale or salvage value including, but not limited to, dilapidated furniture, appliances, machinery, equipment, building materials, automobile parts, tires or other items which are either wholly or partially rusted, wrecked, junked, dismantled or in an inoperative condition.
LITTER. Any discarded materials including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, household trash, yard trash, refuse, can, bottle, box, container, wrapper, paper, paper product, tire, appliance, mechanical equipment or part, tool, machinery or equipment, wood, automobile parts, vessel, dead animals, solid waste materials, industrial materials and hazardous waste and other solid waste.
OCCUPANT. Any person who occupies a dwelling or building for seven or more consecutive days.
OPEN SPACES. Areas of properties or portions thereof that are open to the exterior, including building openings of residential dwelling units, such as carports and porches, and any other portion of properties ordinarily exposed to the outside or public view, including front, side and rear yards, driveways, parking areas, storage areas, bodies of water, sidewalks, curbs or rights-of-way up to the edge of the pavement or gravel of any public street.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Anything that causes injury or damage to the health or life of any person, is a detriment to the surrounding property values or that causes an offensive odor.
(Ord. 00-29, passed 7-25-2000; Ord. 09-22, passed 8-25-2009; Ord. 20-30, passed 11-24-2020)