For the purposes of this chapter, these words and phrases have the following meanings:
A. GARBAGE. An accumulation of spoiled or discarded animal or vegetable material resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of food for humans or animals, as well as other organic waste material subject to rapid decomposition, and its waste wrappers or containers.
B. INOPERABLE VEHICLE/WATERCRAFT. Any vehicle or watercraft without registration and proof of current insurance, or any vehicle or watercraft by reason of dismantling or other causes is incapable of being propelled under its own power as manufactured or drawn upon a public highway, street, or waterway.
C. JUNK. Scrap metal of all types, old appliances, vehicle parts, glass, paper, cardboard, old wood or lumber, furniture, furniture parts, stoves, sinks, cabinets, household fixtures, refrigerators, abandoned, broken or neglected equipment, mattresses, broken glass, broken concrete, broken plaster or gypsum board, scrap lumber, siding or roofing materials, ceiling tile or floor covering materials, broken asphalt materials, or broken concrete, clay, tile or plastic pipes or any similar building or construction materials, or any other material of no apparent economic value which is present in an obvious state of disarray as determined by the code official.
D. JUNKYARD. The use of more than a total of 200 square feet of the area of any property for the storage or keeping of junk or inoperable vehicles or inoperable watercraft.
E. PROPERTY. Any real property, lot, or parcel of land having fixed boundaries, whether developed or undeveloped and located within the corporate limits of this city which is not a street or highway.
F. RESPONSIBLE PARTY. A person who knows or has reason to know of the existence of any violation of this chapter on property owned by that person, or on property that person occupies or controls, in whole or in part, including but not limited to an owner, occupant, lessor, lessee, manager, managing agent, licensee or any person who has legal care or control of the property or right-of-way appurtenant and adjacent to such property.
G. RUBBISH. Combustible and noncombustible waste or unusable materials, except garbage; the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust and other similar materials, as determined by the code official.
H. STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
I. UNUSABLE. Incapable of being used for its regular or recognized purpose.
J. VEHICLE. Any machine propelled by power other than human power designed to travel along the ground or water by use of wheels, treads, runners, slides or other means and transports persons or property or pulls machinery, and includes without limitation automobiles, trucks, trailers, boats, personal watercraft, motorcycles, tractors, buggies, wagons or carts.
(Prior Code, § 7-2-1) (Ord. 22-1294, passed 10-11-2022; Ord. 16-1154, passed 7-12-2016; Ord. 92-386, § 2, passed - -1992; Ord. 86-177, (part), passed - -1986)