[Code 1980 §11-16; CC 1990 §12-1; Ord. No. 6695, 5-28-2002]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings prescribed to them, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The total cost incurred by the City in connection with a public nuisance including, but not limited to:
Any cost incurred in removing or remedying a public nuisance;
The notice and order, appeal and termination fees or administrative services rendered by the City in connection with the inspection, notification, prosecution and abatement procedures authorized by this Code:
The notice and order, appeal and termination fees shall be in such amounts as are determined from time to time by resolution of the City Council.
The notice and order, appeal and termination fees will be calculated based on services rendered by the department from the time of the initial complaint intake for the purpose of documenting a violation of this Code until the violation is corrected.
The notice and order, appeal and termination fees are not intended to be a penalty imposed for violation of this Code or other laws.
Any waste or animal or vegetable matter likely to decay or usually discarded as waste matter from any source, except for compost matter which does not create a nuisance or emit an obnoxious odor.
Any cast-off, damaged, discarded, junked, obsolete, salvage, scrapped, unusable, worn-out or wrecked object, thing or material composed in whole or in part of asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, metal, paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber, terra cotta, wool, cotton, cloth, canvas, organic matter or other substance having no substantial market value or requiring reconditioning in order to be used for its original purpose.
The scattering or dropping of rubbish, trash or other matter including, without limitation, fruit or fruit particles, wrappers, containers, papers, paper products, bottles, glass, cans, metal parts, hulls, handbills, confetti, shavings, shells or stalks.
Owner of record of real property, occupant, lessee, interested holder in same or homeowners' association, as the case may be. For purposes of this Chapter, a homeowners' association which exercises management and/or control over a common area shall be deemed an owner of the area over which such control is exercised. Exercising control includes, but is not limited to, maintenance, ownership, easements and/or assessing fees on property owners pursuant to agreements, deeds or recorded documents.
Includes the record owner of the property, any tenant, any lessee of the property, any individual in charge of or responsible for the property as the agent of the record owner or tenant of the property.
Any real property or improvements thereon, as the case may be, including, but not limited to, an area designated as a common area within a condominium or similar project.
Premises.
Any type of debris or rejected matter.
Worn-out, used, broken up or worthless matter or material.
Leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation and Christmas trees. The term does not include stumps, roots or shrubs with intact root balls.