For purposes of this Chapter 99, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed to have the following meaning:
AUTHORIZED CITY REPRESENTATIVE. An officer, director, employee, or agent of the City of Santa Fe Springs or an officer, director, employee or agent of a licensed private pest control company
which the city has previously entered into a contractual agreement with for the control and abatement of vectors.
BEEHIVE (MANAGED BEES) or NEST (FERAL BEES). A colony of bees.
DISTRICT. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.
FERAL BEE. Any wild honey bee, including but not be limited to, the Africanized Honey Bee, also known as the "Killer Bee."
INFESTATION. A colony or an established swarm of bees forming a colony.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Any condition which endangers public health, safety and/or welfare.
SWARM. A number of bees, including a queen and leaving a hive to start a new colony.
VECTOR. Any insect that poses a nuisance or
danger to the public health and safety, and that potentially may transmit a disease producing organism from one host to another, including but not limited to, the following: Africanized and European honey bees, mosquitos, midges (chironomids), and black flies (simulids).
(Ord. 906, passed 4-13-00)