For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given herein:
GARBAGE OR RUBBISH: Includes, but is not limited to, trash, wastepaper, old or scrap trash or wood, general trash, cardboard or other flammable material of any kind or garbage including decaying waste or discarded food, meat, fish, animal or vegetable matter, including any hazardous materials or waste, oil, gasoline or diesel products, any of which by their volume, extent or nature endangers the public safety by creating a health or fire hazard.
GRAFFITI: Any unauthorized inscribing, word, figure or design which is marked, etched, scratched, drawn, painted, pasted or otherwise affixed to or on any surface, regardless of the nature of the material of that structural component, to the extent the same was not authorized in advance by the owner thereof, or, despite advance authorization, is otherwise deemed by the town council to be a public nuisance 1 .
INFECTIOUS AND RELATED WASTES AND ODORS: Including from: hospitals and medical facilities, sewers, cesspools, septic tanks, leach lines and fields (whether of individual or multiple ownership), toilets, holding tanks, seepage pits, butcher offal, pet droppings, excrement, urine, laundry water, manure accumulations, dead animals, putrid matter and similar materials under circumstances endangering the public health and safety.
JUNK: Includes any secondhand or used machinery and scrap metal, including, but not limited to, appliances, rubber tools, implements, or parts thereof, batteries, rope, rags or plastic, any of which are gathered together or stored in a manner to constitute a hazard to the public health or safety.
POLLUTED WATER: Water contained in a swimming pool, pond or other body of water, which includes, but is not limited to, bacterial growth including algae, remains of rubbish, refuse, debris, paper or any other foreign matter or material which because of its nature or location constitutes an unhealthy or unsafe condition.
UNSIGHTLY PROPERTY: Includes any property or building or structure in a defective or unsightly condition, or in such a state of deterioration or disrepair that it causes or will cause an ascertainable diminution of the property values of surrounding properties or is otherwise materially detrimental to adjacent and/or nearby properties and improvements.
WEEDS: Useless and troublesome plants generally accepted as having no value and frequently of uncontrolled growth. Weeds do not include any plant protected under state or federal law and include, but are not limited to, the following:
A. Brush which attains a growth so as to become when dry a fire menace to adjacent improved property;
B. Growth which is noxious or dangerous;
C. Poison oak, poison ivy, castor beans or any other poisonous plant when the growth conditions are such as to constitute a significant hazard to the public health;
D. Dry grass, rubble, brush, litter or any flammable material which by its volume, extent or nature endangers the public safety by creating a fire hazard. (Ord. 58, 7-20-1995; amd. Ord. 64, 3-7-1996)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See chapter 11.20 of this code. |