Chapter 8.40
APPLICATION AND LAND STORAGE OF MANURE
Sections:
   8.40.100   Title.
   8.40.110   Purpose and intent.
   8.40.120   Definitions.
   8.40.200   Prohibitions.
   8.40.210   Exceptions.
   8.40.300   Responsibility for administration.
   8.40.310   Violations and penalties.
   8.40.320   Enforcement.
8.40.100 Title.
   This chapter shall be known as the "City of Murrieta Application and Land Storage of Manure Ordinance" and may be so cited.
(Ord. 401 § 1, 2007)
8.40.110 Purpose and intent.
   It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to prohibit the application and land storage of unbagged manure within the city limits of the City of Murrieta.
(Ord. 401 § 1, 2007)
8.40.120 Definitions.
   The terms as used in this chapter or in any resolution or standard adopted by the City Council pursuant to this chapter shall have the following meanings:
   "Application site" means any parcel of real property within the city limits of the City of Murrieta which accepts or is subject to the application or land storage of unbagged manure.
   "Land owner" means any person, firm, company, business, city, county, district, special district including a water district, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, association, limited liability corporation or corporation whether for profit or nonprofit that owns, leases, occupies, is authorized by the property owner to conduct farming activities or otherwise controls real property within the city limits of the City of Murrieta.
   "Manure" means any bulk, unbagged substances composed primarily of animal excrement (excluding human excrement).
   "Manure applier" means any person, business or entity which causes the application or storage of manure on any application site.
   "Manure generator" means any person that owns or otherwise controls the agricultural livestock that produce manure.
   "Manure transporter" means any person or entity that transports, in a vehicle with a capacity in excess of one ton, manure from the generation site to the application site.
(Ord. 401 § 1, 2007)
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