Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the definitions of the current Vector Control Ordinance requirements of the Indiana State Department of Health and their interpretations shall apply to the enforcement of this subchapter and the provisions of I.C. 16-41-33-1 et seq. and any amendments thereto, are incorporated herein. In addition to or to otherwise supplement those definitions contained in the above referenced code sections this subchapter shall include the following additional definitions:
BOARD OF HEALTH. Means or includes the Tippecanoe County Health Department.
DEPARTMENT or HEALTH DEPARTMENT. The Tippecanoe County Health Department.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Health Officer of Tippecanoe County, Indiana or his authorized representative.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporate, association. Joint-stock company, trust, estate, municipal corporation, city, school, town, school district, school corporation, county, any consolidated unit of government, political subdivision, or any legal entity.
PEST. Any arthropod, vertebrate, or microorganism of health significance to humans.
VECTOR. Any arthropod or feral animal responsible for the transmission of pathogens from a host to another animal or human.
(Ord. 94-17-CM, passed 6-20-94; Am. Ord. 2019-11-CM, passed 4-1-19)