For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LITTER. Includes, but not be limited to:
(1) Trash, rubbish, refuse, garbage, paper, rags and ashes;
(2) Wood, plaster, cement, brick or stone building rubble;
(3) Grass, leaves and worthless vegetation;
(4) Offal and dead animals;
(5) Any machine, vehicle or parts of a machine or vehicle which have lost their identity, character, utility or serviceability as such through deterioration, dismantling or the ravages of time, are inoperative or unable to perform their intended functions, or are cast off, discarded or thrown away or left as waste, wreckage or junk; or
(6) Any motor vehicle not housed in a storage or other building that is not operable and currently licensed.
UNSAFE BUILDING or UNSAFE STRUCTURE. Includes, but not be limited to any building, shed, fence or other human-made structure which is dangerous to the public health because of its condition and which may cause or aid in the spread of disease or injury to the health of its occupants or those of neighboring structures; because of faulty construction, age, lack of proper repair or any other cause is especially liable to fire and constitutes or creates a fire hazard; by reason of faulty construction or any other cause is liable to cause injury or damage by the collapse or fall of all or any part of such structure; because of its conditions or because of lack of doors or windows is available to and frequented by malefactors or disorderly persons who are not lawful occupants of such building or structure; any partially constructed building or structure which has lost or is unable to perform its intended function, or is cast off, discarded or abandoned; or as determined in the latest adopted edition of the International Building adopted by the city, as the same may from time to time be amended. It shall be the responsibility of the Building Inspector or Fire Chief to make a determination of the condition of any building or structure in the city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction whether it is an unsafe building or unsafe structure.
WEEDS. Includes, but is not limited to, bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris), leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula), Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), perennial peppergrass (Lepidium draba), Russian knapweed ( Centaurea picris ), Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense ), nodding or musk thistle, quack grass (Agropyron repens), perennial sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis), horse nettle (Solanum carolinense), bull thistle (Cirsium lanceolatum), buckthom (Rhamnus sp.) (toum), hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) and ragweed (Ambrosiaceae).
WEEDS, GRASSES OR WORTHLESS VEGETATION. Any weed, grass, or worthless vegetation growth of more than 12 inches in height, or more than eight inches within the same calendar year, after the city has previously acted to remove weeds, grasses, or worthless vegetation exceeding 12 inches in height on the same lot or piece of ground.
(Ord. 815, passed 8-13-2024)