The following terms shall apply to this subchapter as defined unless context indicates or requires a different meaning.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, company, business, or organization.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Whoever by his act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:
(1) Maintains or permits a condition which annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public;
(2) Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right of way, or waters used by the public; or
(3) Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law or this section to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided.
SOLID FUEL-FIRED HEATING DEVICE. An external device designed for solid fuel combustion so that usable heat is derived for the interior of the building, and includes solid fuel-fired stoves, fireplaces, solid fuel-fired cooking stoves, and combination fuel furnaces or boilers which burn solid fuel. SOLID FUEL-FIRED HEATING DEVICES do not include natural gas-fired fireplace logs.
(Ord. 367, passed 11-23-2009)