For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PUBLIC WAY. The term means:
(A) Any public arterial, collector or local street located within the corporate limits of the town and under town jurisdiction, but excluding a public alley or municipally owned service drives or parking lots;
(B) A state highway or state-maintained primary or secondary route to the extent located within the corporate limits of the town; and
(C) Any privately owned, maintained and operated thoroughfares which are primarily dedicated to and used for public vehicular traffic by residents and occupants of or other members of the public seeking vehicular access to, residential subdivisions, condominium and apartment complexes, office complexes, industrial parks and similar developments but excluding private driveways, service roads or parking lots.
SEPARATE BUILDING. Each principal building located on any lot or parcel of land and facing on a public way, exclusive of accessory buildings (all as defined in the town zoning ordinance). A building shall be regarded as a SEPARATE BUILDING if it is a principal building, is structurally and architecturally identifiable as distinct and was built at a different time from any other principal building, notwithstanding the fact that any such building may have one or more common or immediately conjoining walls with any other principal building.
SEPARATE EXTERIOR UNIT. Any separate building, but also includes any physical subdivision of the building such as an apartment, condominium, business office, shop or store which:
(1) Is separately used and occupied with respect to other portions of the building; and,
(2) Has a separate principal ground-level exterior entrance facing on a public way.
('85 Code, § 9-8-1) (Ord. 1985-C34, passed 9-24-85)