For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTOMOBILE PARTS. Any portion or parts of any motor driven vehicle as detached from the vehicle as a whole.
BONA FIDE FARMING OPERATION. The operation and maintenance of a farm, situated on five contiguous acres or more of land used for the production of livestock, poultry, poultry products, dairy, dairy products, or horticulture products or for the growing of crops such as, but not limited to, tobacco, corn, soybeans and wheat.
CONSTRUCTION or DEMOLITION ACTIVITY. The erection (including excavation), demolition, alteration, or repair of any building, structure or roadway, for which all necessary and proper governmental permits have been obtained.
INOPERATIVE CONDITION. Unable to move under its own power due to defective or missing parts, and which has remained in such condition for a period of not less than ten consecutive days.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any style or type of motor driven vehicle used for the conveyance of persons or property.
NUISANCE. Any condition or the use of premises or of building exteriors which is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other properties or which renders such properties as dangerous or detrimental or adverse to the health or welfare or is offensive to the senses of the residents in the city.
PARKING LOTS. Any off-street parking facility for public use, and the approaches to same, whether publicly or privately-owned, and shall include but not be limited to: parks, shopping centers, restaurants, entertainment centers, taverns, car washes, banking or financial institutions, whether publicly or privately-owned, operated, or controlled.
PERSON. Any person, firm, association, partnership, joint venture, corporation or any private entity of any nature.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any road, street, avenue, alley, boulevard, highway, lane, or court, including the berm, shoulder or any public property adjacent thereto, bridge, viaduct, trestle and the approaches to them, or sidewalk.
SCRAP METAL. Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum, or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or any other material, whether intact or in parts, which has served its usefulness in its original form and can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose.
UNFIT FOR FURTHER USE. In a dangerous condition; having defective or missing parts; or in such a condition generally as to be unfit for further use as a conveyance.
VEHICLE. Any machine or device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on any right-of-way or parking lot.
(Ord. 809-16, passed 4-11-2016)