The following terms, wherever used herein or referred to in the code,
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the text.
DETERIORATION
The condition of a building or part thereof characterized
by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, peeling or other evidence of physical
decay or neglect, lack of maintenance or excessive use.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any premises or any part thereof characterized by holes,
breaks, rot, crumbling, peeling, rusting or other evidence of physical
decay or neglect, lack of maintenance or excessive use.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents and vermin.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food. (See also
"refuse" and "rubbish.")
HABITABLE ROOMS
Rooms used or designed for use by one or more persons for
living or sleeping or cooking or eating, but not including bathrooms,
water closet compartments, laundries and serving and storage pantries.
Corridors, foyers, vestibules, cellars, heating rooms, boiler rooms,
utility rooms and other rooms or spaces that are not used frequently
or for an extended period of time or that have less than 50 square
feet of superficial floor area shall not be considered as habitable
rooms.
INFESTATION
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests on
the premises that constitute a health hazard.
JUNK
Any old, discarded or unused waste iron or other metal or
substance, glass, paper, used lumber, rags, machine parts, accessories,
machinery, machines, unregistered motor vehicles, boats and boat trailers.
LITTER
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
or noncombustible wastes, such as but not limited to paper wrappings,
cardboard, empty containers, tin or aluminum cans, wood, glass or
glass bottles, ashes or other debris of a nondescript nature.
MIXED OCCUPANCY
Any building containing one or more dwelling units or rooming
units and/or having a portion thereof devoted to nondwelling uses
or used as a hotel.
NOXIOUS WEEDS
Weed or plant growth which is noxious or detrimental to the
public health and welfare.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance as defined by statute or ordinance or local
law.
(2)
Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to the health
or safety of children, whether in a building, on the premises of a
building or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes but is not limited
to abandoned motor vehicles, abandoned cesspools, abandoned wells,
shafts, basements, excavations, abandoned ice boxes, refrigerators,
motor vehicles, boats, trailers, any structurally unsound fences or
structures, lumber, trash, debris or vegetation, such as poison ivy
or poison sumac, which may prove hazardous for inquisitive minors.
(3)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life or detrimental to
the health of persons on or near the premises where the condition
exists.
(4)
Overcrowding of a room with occupants in violation of this code.
(5)
Insufficient ventilation or illumination in violation of this
code.
(6)
Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities in violation
of this code.
(7)
Inadequate conditions or anything offensive to the senses or
dangerous to health, in violation of this code.
(8)
Whatever renders air, food or drink, unwholesome or detrimental
to the health of human be beings.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a dwelling
or control of a dwelling or premises or a part thereof, whether with
or without the knowledge of the owner.
OWNER
Any person or entity who alone, or jointly or severally with
others, shall have legal or equitable title to any premises, with
or without accompanying actual possession thereof or shall have charge,
care or control of any dwelling unit as owner or as executor, executrix,
administrator, trustee, receiver or guardian of the estate or as a
mortgagee in possession, regardless of how such possession was obtained.
Any person who is a lessee subletting or reassigning any part or all
of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to be co-owner with
the lessor and shall have joint responsibility over the portion of
the premises sublet or assigned by said lessee.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
All individuals, associations and corporations who have interests
of record in a building and any who are in actual possession thereof.
PARK
Any reservation, playground, beach, recreation center, lakefront,
vacant land or other public area owned or operated by the Village
and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association
or organization of any kind.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or
structures thereon.
PRIVATE PROPERTY/PREMISES
Any vacant land or house, building or other structure not
owned or operated by the Village of Greenwood Lake, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, including any
yard, ground, parking lot, walk, driveway or accessory structure belonging
to or appurtenant to such house, building or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE/AREAS
Any highway, road, street, avenue, alley, park, public parking
area, public driveway, sidewalk, right-of-way, grounds or building
or any property under the ownership or control of the Village of Greenwood
Lake, or any property open to and/or serving the general public.
PUBLIC AUTHORITY
Any officer who is in charge of any department or branch
of the government of the municipality, county or state relating to
health, fire, building regulations or to other activities concerning
buildings in the municipality.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, except body
wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ash, street
cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and boats, solid market
and industrial wastes. (See also "garbage" and "rubbish.")
RUBBISH
Litter, as defined herein, in quantities necessitating bagging
or packaging, any junked, inoperable or abandoned automobile, bicycle,
boat or any boat parts, and/or parts or tires of any automobile, bicycle,
airplane or helicopter, or any construction or demolition materials,
any docks or flotation products, any appliances, furniture, scrap
materials or all other waste materials which, if thrown, accumulated
or deposited as herein prohibited, tend to create a danger to public
health, safety or welfare, or tend to cause pollution of waterways
or tend to create any unsightly condition or blight.