Definitions. For the purpose of this Article, certain terms and words
are hereby defined as follows. Any word not defined herein or in the
Code shall have its usual meaning.
AGENT
A person entrusted with another's business. A business
representative, whose function is to bring about, modify, effect,
accept performance of, or terminate contractual obligations between
principal and third persons.
DEBRIS
The remains of anything broken down, destroyed, or in ruins.
BUILDING OFFICIAL
The person appointed as the Building Official, and shall
also mean his or her designee.
DISMANTLED VEHICLE
Any vehicle missing significant body parts, including, but
not limited to, hood, fender, cab, door, window glass, or trunk lid.
GRAFFITI
The defacing, damaging or destroying by the spraying of paint
or marking of ink, chalk, dye or other similar substances on buildings,
structures, properties, and places without the consent of the owner.
INOPERABLE VEHICLE
Any vehicle, including, but not limited to, any vehicle that
is unlicensed, wrecked, abandoned, in a state of disrepair, or incapable
of being moved under its own power.
JUNKED VEHICLE
Any vehicle that is considered an inoperable vehicle and
has no resale value or use except as a source of parts or scrap.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
NOXIOUS OR TOXIC ODOR, DUST VAPOR, FUME, AND/OR MIST
Any airborne substance, whether visible or invisible and
whether particulate or not, which causes nausea, vomiting, dizziness,
headaches, eye or skin irritation, or other physical injury to a person.
NOXIOUS WEEDS
Plants, such as poison ivy, poison oak, ragweed, or other
poisonous plants or plants detrimental to health, kudzu, and those
weeds prohibited as per the current Missouri Department of Agriculture
listing.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization,
or other group acting as a unit, as well as individuals. It shall
include an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or other representative
appointed according to applicable law. Whenever the word "person"
is used in any Section of this Article prescribing a penalty or fine,
as to partnerships or associations, the word shall include the partners
or members thereof, and as to corporations, shall include the officers,
agents or members thereof who are responsible for any violation of
this Section.
PREMISES
A lot, plot, or parcel of land, including any structures
thereon.
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any property within the corporate limits of the City that
is not owned or controlled by a public governmental body.
UNLICENSED VEHICLE
Any vehicle that does not display a valid license and current
inspection sticker, as required by the state in which the vehicle
is legally registered in order to operate said vehicle upon public
roads. This excludes vehicles provided for sale by an appropriately
licensed seller of new or used vehicles that are stored and displayed
on property so permitted for such sale.
VEGETATION
Any plant or plant species, taken as a whole.
VEHICLE
Any mechanical device on wheels, excluding motorized bicycles,
vehicles propelled or drawn by horses or human power, vehicles used
exclusively on fixed rails or tracks, and motorized wheelchairs operated
by handicapped persons. The term "vehicle" includes, but is not limited
to, commercial and non-commercial motor vehicles, dismantled vehicles,
inoperable vehicles, junked vehicles, motor vehicles, recreational
vehicles, trailers, unlicensed vehicles, boats, and watercraft.
WEEDS
In the context of this Article and unless otherwise stated,
vegetation generally recognized as wild or undesirable, whether found
upon residentially or commercially zoned properties.