As used in this chapter:
(a) "Unoccupied commercial building" means any building, including the land on which it is situated, which is used or intended to be used for the retail, commercial, or business occupancy within which commercial transactions have ceased and been abandoned for a period in excess of thirty days.
(b) "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body waste), including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid market and industrial wastes.
(c) "Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
(d) "Natural growth" shall include dead trees and limbs and other natural growths which, by reason of rotting or deteriorating conditions or storm damage, constitute a hazard to persons in the vicinity thereof. "Natural growth" shall also refer to and include any and all planted materials, bushes, shrubbery, ground cover, grass areas, or lawns, and other landscaping materials, however described, and which, by reason of weed infestation, overgrowth or lack of trimming or pruning, constitute a nuisance or otherwise violate Section
1363.07
(b)(1) or Section
949.03
.
(e) "Exterior of the premises" means those portions of a building which are exposed to public view and the open space of any premises outside of any building erected thereon.
(f) "Owner" means an owner of premises, including a holder of title thereto subject to contract or purchase, a trustee, a vendee in possession, a mortgagee or receiver in possession, a lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof, a tenant, an agent or any other person, firm, corporation or fiduciary directly in control of premises.
(Ord. 2011-5. Passed 2-1-11.)
(Ord. 2011-5. Passed 2-1-11.)