For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MISTLETOE. Viscum album.
OWNER. The legal owner or owner of record of real property fronting on any street and as used in this chapter, the singular shall include the plural, and shall include an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a partnership and the lessees, trustees, agents, employees, servants and representatives of any such owner.
PUBLIC STREET OR STREETS. All roads, streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways and public rights-of-way, or any portions thereof, of the city.
RUBBISH. All putrescible and nonputrescible, combustible and noncombustible solid wastes, including garbage, refuse, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned or no longer used automobiles, junk, worthless and useless articles, which are in such a state or in such quantity as to be unsightly, against general welfare, unhealthful, dangerous to persons or property, or so as to interfere with the abatement of weeds. Also includes all tree trimmings and prunings of any kind.
WEEDS. Includes any of the following:
1. Weeds which bear or may bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature;
2. Weeds and indigenous grasses which may attain such large growth as to become, when dry, a fire menace;
3. Weeds which are otherwise noxious or dangerous;
4. Weeds which are a public nuisance of a seasonal or recurring nature;
5. Poison oak and poison ivy when the conditions of growth are such as to constitute a menace to the public health;
6. Mistletoe or other parasitic growths;
7. Sandburs and puncture vines; and
8. Any grass or weed which exceeds three inches in height.
(Ord. 318, passed 4-7-1987)