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§ 23.0502   Definitions.
   Definitions stated in other Chapters of this Code shall supplement the following:
   PUBLIC NUISANCES include:
   (a)   Accumulations of junk, trash, and related materials as set forth more specifically at Chapter 8 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the San Bernardino County Code (Waste Management) herein and including but not limited to: scrap metals; scrap plastic or polymer materials; scrap pipe or plumbing fixtures; machinery; rags; bedding; waste oil; batteries; oily wastes and similar accumulations under conditions not in compliance with approved land uses or locations as set forth more specifically in Title 8 of the San Bernardino County Code (Development), or otherwise in any manner detrimental to public health and safety or the environment.
   (b)   Hazardous waste or hazardous materials as defined in this Code that are present under circumstances that could endanger public health and safety, or the environment.
   (c)   Incompatible materials unsuitable for commingling where circumstances suggest a likelihood of explosion, spontaneous combustion, chemical reaction, fire, extreme heat, toxic substance formation or other dangerous reaction so as to endanger public health and safety or the environment.
   (d)   Biological and medical related wastes and odors from hospitals and medical facilities, sewers, cesspools, septic tanks, leach lines and fields (whether of individual or multiple ownership), toilets, holding tanks, seepage pits, butcher offal, animal droppings, excrement, urine, greywater, manure accumulations, dead animals, putrid matter and similar materials under circumstances endangering the public health and safety or the environment.
   (e)   The installation, operation, repair or modification of any underground tank system contrary to the provisions of this Code or the spill, overfill or release of a hazardous material or hazardous waste from an underground storage tank system.
   (f)   Any situation or activity that exists or is conducted, maintained, or permitted, known at common law, in equity jurisprudence, specified at Civil Code §§ 3479 et seq., Penal Code § 370, or elsewhere defined in State law or by the laws of the County as a public nuisance and within the authority of the Division to abate.
   (g)   Any violation of the provisions of Chapters 4, 5, 6, or 7 of Division 3 of Title 2 of this Code.
(Ord. 3846, passed - -2002)