AGENCY: The city agency designated to enforce the community decay ordinance.
COMMUNITY DECAY: A public nuisance created by allowing rubble, debris, junk, or refuse to accumulate resulting in conditions that are injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or obstruct the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
COMMUNITY DECAY STANDARDS: Those standards which may be adopted by the city commission in order to provide guidance to the enforcing agency as to the application of this chapter.
PERSON: An individual, firm, partnership, company, association, corporation, city, town, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not.
PUBLIC NUISANCE: A nuisance which affects, at the same time, an entire community or neighborhood or any other considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted on individuals may be unequal.
PUBLIC VIEW: Any point, six feet (6') above the surface of the center of any public road, property or right of way, from which the community decay can be seen.
SHIELDING: Refers to fencing or other manmade barriers to conceal a facility from public view. It also refers to natural barriers. Any shielding barrier must conform to all local zoning, planning, building and protective covenant provisions or applicable city ordinance. Any shielding is to be of sufficient height that none of the violation on the premises is visible to public view. (Ord. 1650, 9-8-1998)