For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACTUAL COST. The actual cost to the city, and if by contract the amount plus interest, if any, as invoiced by an independent, private contractor for terminating and abating a violation of this section on a lot, tract, or parcel, plus the cost of serving notice of the violation, obtaining title information on the property, and all other identifiable costs incurred by the city in the clean-up of the lot, tract, or parcel.
COMPATIBLE ELECTRONIC MEDIUM OR MEDIA. Machine-readable electronic repositories of data and information, including, but not limited to, magnetic disk, magnetic tape, and magnetic diskette technologies, which provide without modification that the data and information therein are in harmony with and can be used in concert with the data and information on the ad valorem tax roll keyed to the property identification number used by the Broward County Property Appraiser.
COMPOST BIN. A container designed for the purpose of allowing nonliving plant material to decompose for use as fertilizer. For purposes of this chapter, any such compost bin shall be constructed of wire, wood lattice or other material which allows air to filter through the structure. A compost bin shall not exceed an area of 64 square feet or a height of five feet.
EXCESSIVE GROWTH. Grass, weeds, rubbish, brush, branches, or undergrowth that has reached a height of eight inches or more.
FILL. Material such as dirt that is imported and deposited on property by artificial means.
GRASS, WEEDS, OR BRUSH. Grass or weeds or brush that, when allowed to grow in a wild and unkempt manner, will reach a height of eight inches or more. This definition does not include bushes, shrubs, trees, vines, flowering plants, and other living plant life typically used and actually being used for landscaping purposes.
IMMINENT PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT. The condition of a lot, tract, or parcel of land that, because of the accumulation of trash, junk, or debris, such as broken glass, rusted metal, automotive and appliance parts, some of which may contain chemicals, such as freon, oils, fluids, or the like, may cause injury or disease to humans or contaminate the environment, or the condition of a lot, tract or parcel that, because of the excessive growth of grass, weeds, or brush, can harbor criminal activity, vermin, or disease.
LEVY. The imposition of a non-ad valorem assessment against property found to be in violation of this chapter.
NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENT. A special assessment that is not based upon millage and that can become a lien against a homestead as permitted in Section 4 of Article X of the Florida Constitution.
NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENT ROLL. The roll prepared by the city and certified to the Broward County Property Appraiser Tax Collector, as appropriate under Florida law, for collection.
NONLIVING PLANT MATERIAL. Nonliving vegetation such as leaves, grass cuttings, shrubbery cuttings, tree trimmings and other material incidental to attending the care of lawns, shrubs, vines and trees.
PROPERTY. A lot or tract or parcel of land and the adjacent unpaved and ungraded portion of the right-of-way, whether such lot or tract or parcel is improved or unimproved.
TRASH, JUNK, OR DEBRIS. Waste material, including, but not limited to, putrescible and non-putrescible waste, combustible and non-combustible waste, and generally all waste materials such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, lumber, concrete rubble, glass, bedding, crockery, household furnishings, household appliances, dismantled pieces of motor vehicles or other machinery, rubber tires, and rusted metal articles of any kind.
(Ord. 1716, passed 5-2-12)