EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: The carrying out of emergency functions related to responding and recovering from emergencies and disasters, and to aid victims suffering from injury or damage, resulting from disasters caused by all hazards, whether natural, technological, or human caused, and to provide support for search and rescue operations for persons and property in distress.
HIGHWAY: For the purpose of this chapter only, means the entire width between the boundary lines of every roadway publicly maintained by the state department of transportation or any county or city with funding from the motor vehicle fund. A highway is generally capable of travel by a conventional two- wheel drive passenger automobile during most of the year and in use by such vehicles.
LAND OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE CITY: Any land owned by the city of Long Beach, or any land controlled by easement, lease, license, right of entry, or other written agreement giving the city use of the subject property.
NONHIGHWAY ROAD: Any road owned or managed by a public agency, a primitive road, or any private road for which the owner has granted an easement for public use for which appropriations from the motor vehicle fund were not used for: a) original construction or reconstruction in the last twenty five (25) years; or b) maintenance in the last four (4) years. In Long Beach the only nonhighway roads are 28th Street Northwest west of Seacrest Avenue and 3rd Street Northeast east of Washington Avenue.
OFF ROAD VEHICLE OR ORV: A nonstreet registered vehicle when used for recreational purposes on nonhighway roads, trails, or a variety of other natural terrain. Off road vehicle or ORV includes, but is not limited to, all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, four-wheel drive vehicles, and dune buggies.
SEASHORE CONSERVATION AREA: All lands now or hereafter under state ownership or control lying between Cape Disappointment and Leadbetter Point and occupying the area between the line of ordinary high tide and the line of extreme low tide, as these lines now are or may hereafter be located, and, where applicable, between the seashore conservation line, as established by survey of the Washington state parks and recreation commission and the line of extreme low tide, as these lines now are or may hereafter be located; and shall also include all state owned nontrust accreted lands along the ocean.
WHEELED ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE OR WATV: A. Any motorized nonhighway vehicle with handlebars that is fifty inches (50") or less in width, has a seat height of at least twenty inches (20"), weighs less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) pounds, and has four (4) tires having a diameter of thirty inches (30") or less, or
B. A utility type vehicle designed for and capable of travel over designated roads that travels on four (4) or more low pressure tires of twenty (20) psi or less, has a maximum width less than seventy four inches (74"), has a maximum weight less than two thousand (2,000) pounds, has a wheelbase of one hundred ten inches (110") or less, and satisfies at least one of the following: 1) has a minimum width of fifty inches (50"); 2) has a minimum weight of at least nine hundred (900) pounds; or 3) has a wheelbase of over sixty one inches (61"). (Ord. 903, 8-18-2014)