For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed to have the following meaning:
A. "Authorized city representative" means an officer, director, employee, or agent of the city of Signal Hill or an officer, director, employee, or agent of a licensed private pest control company which the city has previously entered into a contractual arrangement with for the control and abatement of vectors.
B. "Beehive" (managed bees) or "Nest" (feral bees) means a colony of bees.
C. "District" means the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.
D. "Feral bee" means any wild honeybee, including but not limited to the Africanized honeybee, also known as the "Killer Bee."
E. "Infestation" means a colony or an established swarm of bees forming a colony.
F. "Public nuisance" means any condition that endangers public health, safety and/or welfare.
G. "Swarm" means a number of bees, including a queen and leaving a hive to start a new colony.
H. "Vector," means 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 honeybees, mosquitoes, midges (chironomids), and black flies (simulids).