The following terms shall have the following meanings when used in this chapter, unless the context of their use indicates otherwise:
BRUSH PILE: | An accumulation of cuttings or dead portions of trees, brush or shrubs placed in a pile or allowed to lay randomly on the ground. |
COSTS: | The expense of removing, storing, destruction, or selling of discarded items. |
DANGEROUS BUILDING OR STRUCTURE: | All buildings or portions thereof which present a risk or hazard to public health, safety, or general welfare, as determined after inspection by the Building Official or other designated agent as defined in the International Building Code, the International Existing Building Code, and/or buildings or structures which meet criteria similar to that described in the 1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings. |
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: | An agent or representative of the Shoshone County Sheriff or the Shoshone County Planning and Zoning Department as designated by the official action of the Board of County Commissioners. |
GARBAGE: | Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, or consumption of food. |
INOPERABLE: | Incapable of being operated legally on a public highway, including, but not limited to, not having a valid, current registration. |
NUISANCE: | Any act, status, condition, substance or activity which is injurious to public health or safety, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an individual, by an entire community or neighborhood, or by any considerable number of persons, or those acts or conditions designated to be by any ordinance of the County of Shoshone or State Law. |
NUISANCE TREE OR SHRUB: | Any woody perennial plant which is allowed to grow in such a manner as to obscure any traffic visibility, any traffic sign, or encroach into a public right of way in such a manner as to create a hazard to those using the right of way, or the existence of any dead or dying tree or shrub which creates a hazard to public safety or public property. |
NUISANCE VEHICLES: | Any vehicle that does not have lawfully affixed thereto a valid, current registered license plate, or is one or more of the following for over thirty (30) days: 1. Inoperable at the time of inspection; 2. Dismantled or partially dismantled; 3. Junked; 4. Wrecked; 5. Abandoned. Discarded vehicles may be deemed to include major parts thereof, including but not limited to bodies, body parts, engines, engine components, transmissions and other drive train parts. |
PERSON: | Any natural persons, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation. |
PUBLIC PLACE: | A building, way, place, or accommodation, whether publicly or privately owned, open and available to the general public. |
REFUSE: | Putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes (except body waste) including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, and solid market and industrial wastes. |
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: | The person responsible for curing or remedying a nuisance, and includes: 1. The owner of the property, or the owner's manager, agent or other person in control of the property on behalf of the owner, as established by evidence gathered from the Enforcement Officer. 2. The person controlling the property including bailee, lessee, tenant, occupant, or other person having possession or control; 3. The person who is alleged to have established or allowed the nuisance to continue. |
RUBBISH: | Non-putrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible wastes, including but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cardboard, tin, aluminum cans, yard clippings, leaves, dirt (other than natural soil, in place) wood, glass, bedding, crockery, remnants of wood; decayed, weathered or broken construction materials which may no longer be suitable for safe or approved construction, worthless and useless articles which are in such a state or such a quantity as to be unsightly, against the general welfare, unhealthy, dangerous to persons or property, or so as to interfere with the abatement of weeds and similar materials. |
VEGETATIVE LITTER: | Scattered accumulation of dead portions of plant materials. |
VEHICLE: | Any device designed to move or propel persons or property or to be drawn upon a highway or street not including a device designed to be propelled or moved by human power, such as wagons, tricycles, bicycles (excluding motorized bicycles), or to be used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. This shall include recreational vehicles and/or motor homes. |
VEHICLE OWNER: | Any individual, firm, limited liability company, corporation, or association with a claim, either individually or jointly of ownership or any interest, legal or equitable, in a vehicle. |
WEED: | All uncultivated, unmown grasses, annual plants, perennial plants, noxious weeds as the same are defined by state statute and/or county code, and all other rank uncultivated vegetation over eight inches (8") tall, other than trees, shrubs, and cultivated plants, flowers and agricultural products. (Ord. 160, 9-17-2019) |