As used in this chapter, the following words are defined as follows:
ADMINISTRATIVE FINE AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY: The monetary sanction established by resolution of the city council that is imposed upon a responsible person by means of a citation.
CITATION: An administrative citation that is issued to a responsible person pursuant to this chapter.
CITEE: A responsible person to whom a citation is issued.
CITY: The city of Temple City, California.
CITY MANAGER: The chief administrative official of the city as appointed by the city council.
CODE: Shall include: a) the entire Temple City municipal code and any other code, rule, or regulation incorporated therein by adoption or reference, b) any uncodified ordinance adopted by the city council of Temple City, c) any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this code, d) any condition of any permit, license, or other entitlement issued pursuant to this code, and e) other state laws as authorized by statute.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AND OFFICER: Any city employee with obligations to enforce this code. Enforcement officers shall include the following personnel: city manager; public services director; public safety manager; code enforcement officer; animal control officer; building inspector and resident safety volunteer member, and their designees. The city manager may designate additional persons to act as officers for purposes of implementing the provisions of this chapter.
HEARING OFFICER: Shall include a private entity, organization, association or person, or a public official, or duly constituted reviewing authority or commission that the city manager designates or appoints to consider all timely requests for an administrative hearing upon issuance of a citation.
OWNER: Shall mean and include any person having legal title to, or who leases, rents, occupies or has charge, control or possession of, or responsibility for, any real property in the city, including all persons shown as owners on the last equalized assessment roll of the Los Angeles County assessor's office. Owners include persons with powers of attorney, executors of estates, trustees, or who are court appointed administrators, conservators, guardians or receivers. An owner of personal property shall be any person who has legal title, charge, control, responsibility for, or possession of such property.
PERSON: Shall mean and includes any individual, partnership of any kind, a corporation of any kind, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other organization or entity, however formed, as well as fiduciaries, trustees, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, or any combination of such persons. "Person" also includes any public entity or agency that acts as an owner in the city.
PROPERTY OR PREMISES: Any real property, or improvements thereon, or portions thereof, as the case may be. "Property" includes any parkway or unimproved public easement abutting such real property. "Property" shall also include all forms of personal property or animals, where applicable.
RESPONSIBLE PERSON: Any person, whether as an owner or an agent, manager, or representative of an owner, or otherwise, that allows, causes, creates, maintains, suffers, or permits a violation of the code to exist or continue, by any act or the omission of any act or duty.
VIOLATION: An act or omission of any act, or use or condition that constitutes an offense of the code, as well as a breach or violation of any condition of a permit, approval or license issued pursuant to the code. A "transient" violation is one that is brief or spontaneous in its commission, or that is not typically confined to a fixed location. A "nontransient" violation is continuing in nature and generally present at one location. (Ord. 12-957)