For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EXTERNAL SOLID FUEL-FIRED HEATING DEVICE. An external device designed for external solid fuel combustion so that usable heat is derived for the interior of a building, and includes solid fuel-fired stoves, fireplaces, solid fuel-fired cooking stoves, and combination fuel furnaces or boilers which burn solid fuel. Solid fuel-fired heating devices do not include natural gas-fired fireplace logs.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Maintaining or permitting a condition which unreasonable annoys, injures or endangers the health, morals, decency, safety, or public peace so that such activities affect the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
STACKS OR CHIMNEYS. Any vertical structure incorporated into a building and enclosing a flue or flues that carry off smoke or exhaust from a solid fuel-fired heating device, including the part of such a vertical structure extending above a roof.
(Ord. 0701, passed 1-9-07)