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PREFACE
Chapter C HOME RULE CHARTER
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 5 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Chapter 14 AUTHORITIES
Chapter 23 BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS
Chapter 36 FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES
Chapter 51 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Chapter 62 PENSIONS
Chapter 70 PERSONNEL
Chapter 77 POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chapter 91 SALARIES AND COMPENSATION
Chapter 120 ALARM SYSTEMS
Chapter 127 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter 141 ANIMALS
Chapter 166 CABLE TELEVISION
Chapter 173 COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY CODE
Chapter 180 CONSTRUCTION CODES
Chapter 185 CONVERSION THERAPY
Chapter 188 CURFEW
Chapter 201 ELECTRIC SERVICE
Chapter 212 FEES
Chapter 219 FIREARMS
Chapter 225 FIREWORKS
Chapter 231 FIRE INSURANCE PROCEEDS
Chapter 237 FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
Chapter 251 FOOD CODE
Chapter 272 GRAFFITI
Chapter 288 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 295 HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
Chapter 302 HOUSE NUMBERING
Chapter 308 HOUSING
Chapter 317 INVASIVE PLANTS AND NOXIOUS WEEDS
Chapter 325 LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 328 LEAD POISONING PREVENTION
Chapter 332 LIBRARY
Chapter 339 LICENSES AND PERMITS
Chapter 346 LITTER AND ADVERTISING MATERIAL
Chapter 353 LOITERING AND PANHANDLING
Chapter 364 MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Chapter 378 MUNICIPAL CLAIMS AND LIENS
Chapter 387 NOISE
Chapter 396 PARKS AND RECREATION
Chapter 403 PAWNBROKERS
Chapter 410 PEDDLING AND SOLICITING
Chapter 424 POLES
Chapter 431 PROPERTY SALES
Chapter 433 PUBLIC ART
Chapter 438 RAIN BARRELS
Chapter 442 RECORDS, PUBLIC ACCESS
Chapter 453 SALES
Chapter 460 SCRAP METAL DEALERS
Chapter 467 SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Chapter 473 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES
Chapter 479 SIDEWALK CAFES
Chapter 485 SIGNS
Chapter 496 SOLID WASTE
Chapter 502 STORAGE FACILITIES
Chapter 505 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 508 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter 515 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 521 SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 536 TAMPERING WITH PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter 540 TATTOO AND PIERCING ESTABLISHMENTS
Chapter 543 TAX ABATEMENTS
Chapter 546 TAX AMNESTY PROGRAM
Chapter 549 TAXATION
Chapter 555 TREES
Chapter 564 VEHICLE NUISANCES, STORAGE OF
Chapter 570 VEHICLE REPAIR SHOPS
Chapter 576 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 583 VENDING MACHINES
Chapter 600 ZONING
Chapter A610 ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY
Chapter A611 BOND ISSUES AND LOANS
Chapter A612 FRANCHISE AND SERVICES
Chapter A613 GOVERNMENTAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Chapter A614 PLAN APPROVAL
Chapter A615 PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter A616 SEWERS
Chapter A617 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter A618 WATER
Chapter A619 ZONING; PRIOR ORDINANCES
Chapter DT DERIVATION TABLE
Chapter DL DISPOSITION LIST
§ 424-103. Definitions.
[Amended 5-29-2001 by Ord. No. 14-2001]
The words defined herein shall include the singular or the plural meanings or both. As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
   ANCHOR GUY — A wire, cable, chain or rod used as a support for a pole or stub and which is attached to an anchor buried below the surface of the ground.
   CHIEF ELECTRICIAN — The Public Works Director or his designee.
   EQUIPMENT — All of the subjects regulated in this chapter.
   GUY or GUY WIRE — A wire or cable used to support a pole, fixture, or other wire, and includes span wire, but does not include anchor guys.
   GUY HOOK or EYEBOLT — A hook or eyebolt attached to a building and to which is attached a guy or any electric or communication wire except such wires supplying service to the occupants of the building.
H-STRUCTURE or H-RACK — A framework of two or more legs which supports one or more "transformers" or "load coils" or "load pots" and for the purpose of this chapter, each leg of such structure or rack shall be deemed a pole.
   PERSON — Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association, and any servant, agent, assistant, employee or representative thereof.
   POLE — A support for electric, communication or signal wire, planted in the ground or in any foundation planted therein, or fastened to a pole reinforcing stub or the surface of the ground or any paving thereon.
   POLE or APPURTENANCE — A pole, guy stub, H-structure, guy hook, or push brace or any or all of them.
   POLE INSPECTOR — Any Pole Inspector of the Department of Public Works.
   POLE PERMIT — The permit issued for any of the work regulated by this chapter.
   PUSH BRACE — A brace attached directly to a pole in lieu of an anchor guy or stub and guy.
   SPAN WIRE — A guy used to support trolley wire, and shall include cross span and curve span wire.
   STUBS —
   A.   POLE-REINFORCING STUB — A patented device, iron, or wood support planted at the base of a pole and lashed to it for the purpose of prolonging the life of the pole.
   B.   GUY STUB — A pole used solely for the purpose of supporting any other pole, or wire, attached to it by a guy.
   STREET — The sidewalk and the roadway area of any way open to the use of the public as a matter of right.
   WIRE — Communication, signal and electric wires or all of them.