The following definitions shall govern the interpretation of this
chapter unless otherwise expressly defined herein:
ABANDON
Includes leaving, discarding, dumping, throwing or placing
of personal property in public or private places.
COMMERCIAL
That which relates to or is connected with trade, traffic
or commerce in general; that which is used or occupied as or with
business or commerce; any building, structure or lot used to manage
conduct or carry out any business, whether for profit, nonprofit,
not for profit or charitable, and is intended to include buildings,
structures or lots used for commercial, retail, industrial or professional
purposes and shall include warehouse or storage facilities.
FIRE AND HEALTH HAZARD
Includes but shall not be limited to weeds, brush, grass, rubbish or poisonous shrubs or weeds, or others items and conditions described in Chapter
164 of the Code of the Town of Smithtown entitled, "Fire Prevention."
PERSON
An individual, firm, association, corporation, labor organization,
partnership, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy,
receiver, tenant, mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents,
executor, lessee, agent or employee, directly or indirectly in control
of a building, lot or property, or any combination of individuals.
PUBLIC PLACE
Includes all areas in the Town of Smithtown which are open
to the public for ingress, egress, transportation, vehicular traffic
and pedestrian traffic, including but not limited to parking lots,
shopping centers, yards, streets or sidewalks.
RESIDENTIAL
Any single-family or two-family home or multiple dwelling,
including but not limited to houses, apartment buildings, garden apartments,
townhouses, condominiums or cooperatives; any structure used for or
intended to be used as or designed to be used as a place for the residence
of any person.
SHOPPING BASKET, WAGON OR CART
Includes any rolling or nonrolling basket or container, or
any part or parts thereof, commonly used in supermarkets or self-service
stores as a conveyer of goods, wares and merchandise.
SOLID WASTE
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances
discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess
to the owners at the time of such discharge or rejection, garbage,
refuse, litter, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air-
or water-control facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material,
incinerator residue, demolition and construction debris, discarded
automobiles and offal sewage or other liquid or semiliquid materials
or substances and those in gaseous form. "Solid waste" includes any
material or scrap separated from the waste stream and held for the
purpose of recycling.
TOWN
Includes all areas in the Town of Smithtown exclusive of
areas wholly within any incorporated village.