The following words are defined for use in this chapter.
1. “All-weather surface” means an asphalt, Portland cement concrete, turf block, brick pavers or gravel surface of sufficient thickness to adequately support a motor vehicle.
2. “Building” means a structure for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattel.
3. “Inoperable condition” means a vehicle that: (i) has a missing or defective part that is necessary for normal operation; or (ii) is on blocks, jacks or other supports; or (iii) does not have a current license for operation on a public roadway.
4. “Lot” means a parcel of land whose area, in addition to the parts thereof occupied by a building or accessory structure, is sufficient to provide front, side and rear yards as specified in the zoning regulations.
5. “Motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle as defined in Chapter 321 of the Code of Iowa, including motorized bicycles, motorcycles, and all-terrain vehicles.
6. “Nuisance” means whatever is injurious to health, indecent, or unreasonably offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as essentially to interfere unreasonably with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 657.1)
7. “Outside” means to be not within an enclosed storage facility or structure and to be visible from other property, including public right-of-way.
8. “Residential area” means an area which is either classified as a residential district for zoning purposes or is regularly used by its occupants as a permanent place of abode or dwelling, which is made one’s home as opposed to one’s place of business and which has housekeeping and cooking facilities.
9. “Weeds” means noxious or otherwise, untended vines, brush, and scrub bushes, and other similar vegetation.
10. “Yard, front” means an open space extending the full width of the lot between the building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise specified in the zoning regulations.
11. “Yard, rear” means an open space extending a full width of a lot between a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise specified in zoning regulations.
12. “Yard, side” means an open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a building and the side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise specified in the zoning regulations.