For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section; provided that, unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this chapter shall be interpreted so as to give them the same meaning as they have in common usage, and so as to give this chapter its most reasonable application.
ALLEY OR ALLEYWAY. Means a narrow lane, path or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind or within buildings in parts of the city. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or path, walk or avenue.
BRUSH. All uncultivated shrubs, brushes and small trees.
CITY. City of Pleasanton.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. The director of the department or the director's designee designated by the City Manager to enforce and administer this chapter or the director's authorized representative.
EARTH AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. Earth, rocks, bricks, concrete, other similar materials and waste material resulting from demolition, construction or remodeling.
GARBAGE. Rubbish, trash, kitchen and household waste, ashes, bottles, cans, rags, paper, food, food containers, lawn trimmings, hedge trimmings, leaves, grass, weeds and refuse, and all decayable wastes, including animal and vegetable matter.
GRAFFITI. Any unauthorized inscription, word, signature, symbol, or other marking of any sort which is etched, written, painted, drawn or applied in any other way to any structure, building or property of any sort or to any portion or element thereof, whether the property is public or private.
GRASS OR WEEDS. Shall mean and include all cultivated and all rank and uncultivated vegetable growth or matter which has grown to more than 12 inches in height or which, regardless of height, is liable to become an unwholesome or decaying mass creating an unsanitary condition or a harborage or breeding place for mosquitoes, rodents, snakes or vermin, and/or other disease carrying pests.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Shall mean solid or liquid waste, in any amount, which is defined, characterized, identified or designated as hazardous by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or appropriate state agency by or pursuant to federal or state law, or waste, in any amount, which is regulated under federal or state law, including motor oil, fluids from radiators, crank cases, transmissions or differentials, gasoline, paint, partially full paint cans, toxic or corrosive materials, batteries, tires or any material found harmful to personnel or equipment as determined by the Director of Public Works.
JUNK. All worn out, worthless and discarded material, in general, including, but not limited to, scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead or scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys, and bones, rags, glass, paper, cordage, cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles, old cotton, machinery, tools, construction materials, appliances, furniture, fixtures, utensils, boxes or crates, pipe or pipe fittings, automobile or airplane tires, dismantled motor vehicles, boats, boat trailers, boathouses or travel trailers or parts thereof, or other manufactured goods or odds and ends that are worn out, worthless, obsolete, discarded material or other wastes, especially those that are unusable in their existing condition.
LITTER. Any quality non-containerized paper, metal, plastic, glass or miscellaneous solid waste which may be classed as trash, debris, rubbish, refuse, garbage or junk not placed in a solid waste container.
LOT. Any tract, block or other parcel of land, or portion thereof, located within the city limits of the City of Pleasanton.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle, car, boat or similar vehicle that is, or was originally, designed to be self-propelled.
OCCUPANT. Any person who has the right to occupy a parcel of property due to being an owner or pursuant to a verbal or written lease or rental agreement with the owner or agent thereof.
OWNER. Occupant or person otherwise having supervision or control of any lot, tract or parcel of land or portion thereof or any building or portion thereof.
PERSON. An individual human, partnership, co-partnership firm, company, limited liability partnership or other partnership or other such company, joint venture, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, association or corporation or any other legal entity, or their legal representative, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural whereas indicated by the context.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, highways, rights-of-way, alleyways and buildings.
REFUSE. See GARBAGE.
RIGHT-OF-WAY (ROW). The strip of land from the edge of the street to the property line. Its purpose is to allow the city to build and maintain the street, curb, and gutter, storm sewers and underground utilities.
RUBBISH. All refuse, junk, rejected tin cans, old vessels of all sorts, useless articles, abandoned pipe, waste wood, wood products, tree trimming, grass cuttings, dead plants, weeds, leaves, dead trees or branches thereof, chips, shavings, saw dust, printed matter, paper, pasteboard, rags, straw, used and discarded clothing, used and discarded shoes and boots, combustible waste, pulp and other products used for packaging or wrapping crockery and glass, ashes, cinders, floor sweepings, glass, mineral or metallic substance, textiles and objects of all sorts and in general all litter. The words "any and all objectionable or unsanitary matters", not included within the meaning of the other terms as herein used, means those which are liable to produce or tend to produce an unhealthy, unwholesome or unsanitary condition to the general locality where the same are situated.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER. A combination of waterborne wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and commercial and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SOLID WASTE. Household garbage and refuse and commercial garbage and refuse, brush cuttings and weeds.
SOLID WASTE SERVICE. Shall mean the collection and hauling of residential and business solid waste, e.g., garbage, trash and refuse, for disposal at a state licensed landfill.
STRUCTURE. As used in this chapter, means the same thing as it does in the city's building code.
TRASH. See GARBAGE.
UNAUTHORIZED LOCATION FOR VEHICLE FOR SALE. Any area where a vehicle for sale is parked when that area does not have both a certificate of occupancy issued by the city for the sale of vehicles and a license from the Texas Department of Transportation for the sale of vehicles at that location.
UNWHOLESOME MATTER. All stagnant water, filth, carrion, impure matters and any condition liable to produce, harbor or spread disease or germs or cause noxious, foul and offensive odors, including foodstuff or by-product thereof of any animal nature, or any fruit, vegetable or other thing which may become tainted, diseased, fermented or decaying or otherwise unwholesome or unclean.
WASTE. Rejected, unutilized or superfluous substances in liquid, gaseous or solid form resulting from domestic, agricultural, commercial or industrial activities.
(Ord. 17-1185, passed 4-20-2017; Ord. 19-1229, passed 8-15-2019; Ord. 21-1280, passed 12-2-2021)