For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
INOPERABLE VEHICLE.
(1) Any of the following:
(a) Any vehicle including but not all inclusive of trailers, boat trailers, motor homes, and campers from which for at least seven days the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power or trailers being towed by a motor vehicle;
(b) Any vehicle which cannot be legally operated on the streets or highways of this state because one or more of the following have been removed or are not in proper condition and adjustment as required by the state statutes as now in effect or hereinafter amended: front bumper, rear bumper, wheels, windshield, steering wheel, door, hood, taillights or headlight; or
(c) Any vehicle not being properly licensed and/or registered with the Secretary of State and/or Department of Conservation (boats on a trailer).
(2) INOPERABLE VEHICLES shall not include a motor vehicle which as been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power or being towed by a motor vehicle in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations, in which case the inoperable vehicle must be repaired within ten calendar days. (See § 73.08 for definition of ABANDONED VEHICLE on public property.)
LANDSCAPE WASTE. All accumulation of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, brush or other plant materials sourced from that specific property.
LITTER. Any discarded, used or unconsumed substances or waste. LITTER may include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, pieces of corrugated metal not attached to a building, discarded scrap metal, motor vehicle bodies, parts, equipment, or motors, ashes, tin cans, metalware, crockery, stoneware, manure, metal storage tanks, unused or discarded hot water heaters, parts of appliances, pieces of pipe, parts of furnaces, window frames not permanently attached to a building, discarded telephone poles, portions of buildings or sides of buildings not permanently attached to a building, pieces of wood or lumber haphazardly strewn about, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers or other packaging construction material, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, discarded or unused objects or equipment such as stoves, refrigerators, freezers, household items, any nauseous or offensive matter of any kind, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, which has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of improperly.
NUISANCE. Any condition or use of premises or of building exteriors which is detrimental to the property and/or is a public health and safety hazard. This includes, but is not limited to, the keeping or the depositing on, or the scattering over the premises of litter and/or landscape waste, inoperable vehicles, weeds and/or grass in excess of permitted heights, stagnant water.
OPEN. Not completely enclosed or encased in a garage, shed or other structure which has intact four complete, not partial, walls and roof. Such walls and roof shall be adequate to prevent the viewing of the contents of the structure from the outside of the structure, excepting therefrom, viewing through windows of a paned glass. An inoperable motor vehicle covered only by a tarpaulin or other similar cover shall be deemed OPEN for the purpose of this chapter.
OPEN BURNING. The combustion of any matter in the open or in an open dump.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, or any other legal entity, or their legal representative, agent or assigns, and PERSON shall mean both the lawful owner and tenant of any premises subject to this chapter.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. Any property, including commercial property, not owned by a state governmental agency.
(Ord. 2011-16, passed 9-12-2011)