For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CAMP, CAMPING or OCCUPY CAMPING FACILITIES. To do any of the following:
(1) To sleep at any time between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. in any of the following places:
(a) Outdoors, with or without bedding, sleeping bag, blanket, mattress, tent, hammock, camping facility or other similar protection, equipment or device; or
(b) In, on or under any structure or thing not intended for human occupancy, whether with or without bedding, sleeping bag, blanket, mattress, tent, hammock, camping or other similar protection, equipment or device.
(2) To establish or maintain outdoors or in, on or under any structure, object or thing not intended for human occupancy, at any time between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., a temporary or permanent place for sleeping by setting up any bedding, sleeping bag, blanket, mattress, tent, hammock, camping facility or other sleeping equipment or device in such as to be usable for sleeping purposes.
CAMPING FACILITY or CAMPING FACILITIES. Include, but are not limited to, tents, huts, lean-tos, tarps, trailers, vehicles, vehicle camping outfits or other forms of temporary shelter.
CAMPING PARAPHERNALIA. Includes, but it is not limited to, bedrolls, blankets, tarpaulins, cots, beds, mattresses, pads, sleeping bags, hammocks, lanterns, stoves or non-city designated cooking facilities and similar equipment.
CITY MANAGER. The City Manager or his or her designee.
ESTABLISH. Setting up or moving equipment, supplies or materials onto public or private property for the purpose of camping or operating or using camping facilities.
MAINTAIN. Keeping or permitting equipment, supplies or materials to remain on public or private property in order to camp oroperate or use camping facilities.
OPERATE or OPERATING. Participating or assisting in establishing or maintaining a camp or camping facility.
PARKS. Public and private parks.
PLAYGROUNDS. Play lots, playgrounds and play fields for local youth and adult recreation programs, excluding professional or semi-professional athletic fields or other outdoor commercial recreation.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. All privately-owned real estate including, but not limited to, privately-owned streets, sidewalks, alleys, ways, creeks, waterways, lots, parcels and other forms of improved or unimproved land or real property.
PUBLIC PROPERTY. All publicly-owned property, including, but not limited to, public streets, sidewalks, alleys, ways, creeks, waterways, parks, playgrounds, recreation areas, plazas, open spaces, lots, parcels and other forms of improved or unimproved land or real property.
SIDEWALKS. The areas along the frontage of private or public property between the street pavement line and the adjacent property line designated or designed for pedestrian use, including driveways and landscape medians.
SPECIAL EVENT. The meaning set forth in § 12.32.050.
STORE. To set aside or accumulate for use when needed, to put for safekeeping or to place or leave in a location.
STREETS or PUBLIC STREETS. Includes avenue, highways, lanes, alleys, ways, crossings or intersections, courts and cul-de-sacs that have been dedicated and accepted according to law, or which have been in common and undisputed use by the public for a period of not less than five years from the effective date of the ordinance enacting this subchapter. STREETS and PUBLIC STREETS do not include privately-owned streets unless the context clearly provides otherwise.
(Ord. 43-21, passed 7-12-2021)