As used in this chapter:
ABANDONED VEHICLE: The vehicle has been parked or left standing upon any public way of the City of Umatilla without authorization by statute or local ordinance, or upon any public or private property, and is therefore a public nuisance.
ABATEMENT: Stopping or suppressing a nuisance completely.
COUNCIL: The Umatilla Mayor and City Council.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: The Oregon Department of Transportation, or other registration authority analogous to the Department of Transportation in any state other than Oregon.
DISCARDED VEHICLE: Any vehicle which reasonably appears to be inoperative, wrecked, abandoned, totally or partially dismantled, or junked. Discarded vehicles may be deemed to include major parts thereof, including, but not limited to, bodies, frames, engines, transmissions and rear ends.
GARBAGE: All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of food.
INTERSECTION: The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two (2) or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle, whether or not one street or highway crosses the other.
LIQUID WASTE: Waste oil, septic tank pumping, liquid industrial wastes or other similar material.
MANAGER: The Umatilla city manager, an authorized representative or designee.
NUISANCE: An unlawful act, an omission to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which either:
A. Presents the potential to injure or endanger the welfare, health or safety of others; or
B. Interferes with, obstructs, tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, ditch or drainage; or
C. In any way creates or enables a physical threat that renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property including hazard trees, derelict buildings or structures or activities that pose a threat to adjoining properties; or
D. Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property through the creation of noxious odors, the presence of noxious weeds, the accumulation of waste, rubbish, or junk, or other conditions that are in violation of this title.
OWNER: Any person having a legal interest in real or personal property or any person in possession or control of real or personal property, and excludes any person whose interest is for security only.
PERSON RESPONSIBLE: The person responsible for abating a nuisance and shall include:
A. The owner;
B. The person in charge of property;
C. The person who caused to come into or continue in existence a "nuisance" as defined herein or by another ordinance of this city.
PUBLIC PLACE: A building, way, place or accommodation, whether publicly or privately owned, open and available to the general public.
RUBBISH: Glass, metal, paper, wood, plastics or other solid waste.
SOLID WASTE 1 : All useless or discarded putrescible and nonputrescible materials, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, paper and cardboard, sewage sludge, septic tank and cesspool pumpings or other sludge, useless or discarded commercial, industrial, demolition and construction materials, discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid or semisolid materials, dead animals and infectious wastes.
VEHICLE: Any device which is designed or used for transporting people, goods or property upon a public street or roadway, including, but not limited to, a body, engine, transmission, frame or other major parts, but does not include a device propelled by human power, such as a bicycle, or a device operated exclusively upon fixed rails or tracks. (Ord. 778, 9-4-2012; amd. Ord. 807, 9-1-2015; Ord. 829, 10-2-2018)
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| 1 | 1. ORS 459.005; OAR 340-093-0030. |