For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTOMOBILE. A vehicle, used to transport persons or property, that is moved by an engine or motor that is a part of the vehicle, over streets, highways, tracks or roads.
AUTOMOBILE PARTS. Any portion or parts of any motor-driven vehicle, whether used in the transportation of persons, animals, personal property or merchandise of any nature, that is detached from the automobile as a whole.
DEBRIS. Broken scattered remains of anything, such as tree limbs, bottles, appliances, building material, paper, piles, clumps of grass and/or weed clippings, unsightly household items, trash, junk or any other accumulation which is unsightly and interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property.
INOPERABLE OR UNLICENSED VEHICLES, TRAILERS AND BOATS. Any style or type of conveyance, whether for the transportation of persons or property, that is unfit for further use as a vehicle, trailer and boat that will conform to all the specifications required to pass a legal inspection, a conveyance not bearing a current license plate or a conveyance that appears to be obsolete and derelict that has been placed on blocks or jacks for a period exceeding 14 days or a vehicle which is otherwise INOPERABLE. Vehicles, trailers and boats must be moved every 30 days, or the Town Marshal or Deputy Town Marshal will consider the vehicle, trailer or boat INOPERABLE.
JUNK. Scraps, parts or obsolete pieces of anything, including, but not limited to, metal, glass, paper, rags, tires or other rubber products, wood, masonry and plastics.
JUNK VEHICLES. Any style or type of conveyance, whether for the transportation of persons or property, that is unfit for further use as a vehicle that will conform to all the specifications required to pass a legal inspection, a conveyance not bearing a current license plate or a conveyance that appears to be obsolete and derelict and that has been placed on blocks or jacks for a period exceeding 30 days.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. Any weed over 12 inches in height, defined by the U.S.D.A. as a prohibited or restricted nature and includes, but is not limited to, Canadian and bull thistles, bindweed, wild garlic, wild grasses such as crab, johnson, pepper and quack, giant foxtail, winter crest, buckhorn, corn cockle, curled dock, dodder, horse nettle, oxeye daisy, penny crest, wild mustard and horse weeds.
RAGS. Cloth products of any nature whether wearing apparel, bed clothing, towels or other usually in a dilapidated state or otherwise discontinued from use.
SCRAP LUMBER. Any thing of a wood nature that is not neatly stacked in “slicked” quantities or that could not be construed as suitable for building in the commonly accepted manner.
SCRAP METAL. Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum or any alloy. Any pieces or parts of metal covered with porcelain, paint or other material shall be considered SCRAP.
SCRAP PAPER. Paper of any kind whether loose, baled or bundled and includes, but is not limited to, boxes, whether assembled or knocked down, newspapers, in whole or in part, wrapping paper, loose or in a roll whether it be brown, waxed, white or any color, plastics such as visqueen, saran wrap and the like.
UNKEMPT LAWN. Any lawn on which grass exceeds a measured height of eight inches in at least three locations visible from public right-of-way.
(Prior Code, § 93.03) (Ord. 91, passed - -; Ord. 176-2010, passed 4-11-2010; Ord. 231-2019, passed 10-8-2019; Ord. 2022-060, passed 10-17-2022)