As used herein, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Property Maintenance Code.
ACCESSORY BUILDING: | A structure the use of which is incidental to that part of the principal building and which is located on the same lot. |
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: | The person designated by the Town Supervisor and Board of Trustees of Leyden Township as the code enforcement officer empowered to enforce the provisions of this Property Maintenance Code. |
EXTERMINATION: | The control and elimination of insects, rodents, and other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating or trapping; or by any other recognized legal pest elimination methods. |
GARBAGE: | Any rejected or waste household food, offal, swill, or carrion, and every accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends the preparation, use, cooking and dealing in or storage of, meats, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables, and any other matter of any nature which are subject to decay, putrefaction and the generation of noxious or offensive gases or odor, or which during or after decay may serve as breeding or deeding material for flies or other germ-carrying insects. |
GRAFFITI: | Any permanent display of any letter, numeral, figure, emblem, insignia, picture, outline, character, spectacle, delineation, announcement or any combination thereof which is/are painted or otherwise applied of a color different from the color of the exterior of the structure on which it is painted or otherwise applied and which size is/are visible beyond the property line boundaries of the property on which it is painted or otherwise applied and placed thereon without the permission of the owner. |
INFESTATION: | The presence within or around a dwelling or dwelling unit of any insects, rodents, or other pests. |
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE: | Any motor vehicle which, for a period of at least seven (7) days or any longer period of time fixed by ordinance, 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. An inoperable motor vehicle shall not include a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations. |
LITTER: | Any discarded, used or consumed substance or waste. Litter includes, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings, or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazine, glass, metal, plastic, or paper containers, wood, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of dead animal, animal or human excrete, any nauseous or offensive material or liquid of any kind, any object which creates a public health or safety hazard, public nuisance or fire hazard or anything else of unsightly or unsanitary nature which has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of improperly. |
OCCUPANT: | Any person living in, sleeping in or having actual possession of a building or portion thereof. |
OPERATOR: | Any person having charge, care, management or control of any building or part thereof. |
OWNER: | Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall have legal or equitable title to any building, the agent of said person, or any person having management or control of the building or a portion thereof, including, but not limited to, a purchaser, mortgagee, receiver, or lessee in possession of any building or portion thereof. |
PERSON: | Any natural person, partnership, trust, corporation or association. Whenever used with respect to any penalty, the term “person” as applied to partnerships or associations shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to trusts or corporations, shall mean the trustees or officers thereof. |
PREMISES: | A lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings and structures thereon. |
PUBLIC NUISANCE: | For purposes of this Property Maintenance Code, “public nuisance” is any activity, inactivity, neglect, omission, commission, abandonment, inadvertent or otherwise, or the like, which does, or tends to, permits, or results in a condition or conditions or circumstances which deleteriously affects the public health, public safety, public welfare, public morals, public sensibilities, public rights and enjoyment of residence or property, panders to vicious tastes, creates attractive nuisance for minors, results in a dilapidated, abandoned and dangerous buildings or improvements or unfinished or uncompleted improvements on real property, permits the growth of noxious or poisonous weeds or growth and accumulation of trash dumps or the like. |
RUBBISH: | Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimming, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass crockery, dust, or any object that is removed from items that are presently worthless or unsuitable for immediate purposes. |
WEEDS: | For the purposes of this Property Maintenance Code, “weeds” shall include, but are not limited to, dandelions, burdock, ragweed (giant), ragweed (common), thistle, cocklebur, jimson, blue vervain, common milk weed, wild carrot, poison ivy, mild mustard, rough pigweed, lambsquarter, wild lettuce, curly dock, smart weeds (all varieties), poison hemlock, wild hemp, and grass; except, however, weeds do not include cultivated flowers and gardens. (TO-2022-1, 2-8-2022) |