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Chapter 12.04
DEFINITIONS
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   12.04.010   Definitions generally.
   12.04.020   Person.
   12.04.030   Public works.
   12.04.040   Utility or utilities or public utility or public utilities.
   12.04.041   Communication services.
   12.04.050   Underground utility district.
   12.04.060   Poles and overhead lines and associated overhead structures.
12.04.010   Definitions generally.
   For the purposes of this Title 12, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the words, terms and phrases hereafter set forth shall have the meanings given them in this Chapter 12.04 or, as appropriate, Chapter 2.11 and Chapter 12.13.
(Ord. 4945 § 17, 2007: Ord. 1886 (part), 1959: prior code § 33.01 (part))
12.04.020   Person.
   The term "person" shall mean an individual, a sole proprietor, a receiver, a trustee, a general partnership, a limited partnership, a limited liability partnership, a joint venture, a firm, an unincorporated association, a syndicate, a club, a society, a trust, a private corporation, a public corporation, a limited liability company, a municipal corporation, a county, a state, a national gov-ernment, a county, state or federal agency, board or commission, a water district, a municipal utility district, a public utility district, a political subdivision, a school district, a drainage, irrigation, levee, reclamation or a water conservation district; a mosquito abatement district, or a flood control district, whether acting for himself, herself, or itself or in any representative capacity.
(Ord. 5267 § 1, 2014; Ord. 4642 § 14, 2000: Ord. 1886 (part), 1959: prior code § 33.01(a))
12.04.030   Public works.
   The term "public works" shall mean structures, utilities and appurtenances on, above or below the ground level which shall have been or are to be installed, constructed or reconstructed for the use or convenience of the general public or the residents of the area served by the public works, including, but not limited to, streets, sidewalks, surface and subsurface storm drainage facilities, sanitary sewage facilities, runways, taxiways and aprons or other parts of a general aviation airport, gas, water, electric, broadband, fiber optics and communications services equipment or facilities, easements, street signs and drainage grades of private properties abutting or having any effect upon such public works.
(Ord. 5267 § 2, 2014; Ord. 4945 § 18, 2007: Ord. 1886 (part), 1959: prior code § 33.01(b))
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