For the specific purposes of this section, the following terms, whenever
used herein or referred to in this section, shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them hereunder unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context:
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
All trucks, vans, construction equipment and limousines,
bearing commercial license plates, which are in excess of four tons
net weight.
DETERIORATION
The condition or appearance of a building or part thereof
characterized by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, crackling, peeling,
rusting or other evidence of physical decay or neglect, lack of maintenance
or excessive use.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any premises or part of any premises which may be lawfully
viewed by the public or any member thereof.
EXTERIOR OF THE PREMISES
Those portions of a building or structure which are exposed
to public view or are visible from adjoining or adjacent lots, including
all outside surfaces and appurtenances thereto; and the open land
space of any premises outside of any building or structure erected
thereon.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents and vermin.
FRONT YARD
That space on the same lot with a principal building situated
between the front street line or lines and the front line of the building
projected to the side property lines. The depth of the front yard
shall be measured along a line perpendicular to the front street line
or right-of-way line from the point of the foundation of the structure
or building closest to such street line.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
INFESTATION
The presence of rodents, vermin, insects or other pests on
the premises which constitutes a health hazard.
NUISANCE
(a)
Any public or private condition so defined by common law, or
that would constitute a nuisance according to the statutes, laws and
regulations of the State of New York, its governmental agencies or
the Code or ordinances of the Town of Macedon.
(b)
Any physical condition existing in or on the exterior of any
premises which is potentially dangerous, detrimental or hazardous
to the life, health or safety of persons on or near or passing within
the proximity where such condition exists.
(c)
Any physical condition, use or occupancy of any premises or
appurtenances considered an attractive nuisance to children, including
but not limited to abandoned wells, shafts, basements, excavations
and unsafe fences or structures; or detrimental to the health or safety
of children, whether in a building on the premises of a building,
or upon an unoccupied lot.
(d)
Any premises which are manifestly capable of being a fire hazard
or are manifestly unsafe or unsecured so as to endanger life, limb
or property.
(e)
Any premises which are unsanitary, or which are littered with
rubbish or garbage, or which have an uncontrolled growth of weeds,
or conditions which render air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental
to the health of human beings; or
(f)
Any structure or building that is in a state of dilapidation
or decay; faulty construction; overcrowded; open, vacant or abandoned;
damaged by fire to an extent so as not to provide shelter; in danger
of collapse or failure; and is dangerous to anyone on or near the
premises.
OCCUPANT
Any person residing, living or sleeping in or on the premises
or having actual possession, use or occupancy of a dwelling, premises
or rooming unit, or any person or entity in possession of or using
any premises, or part thereof, whether or not the owner thereof, and
regardless of the duration of time of such possession, use or occupancy.
OPERATOR
Any person, persons or entity not the owner, who or which
has charge, care or control of a dwelling or premises or a part thereof,
with or without the knowledge, consent or authority of the owner.
OWNER
Any person, persons or entity who or which shall have legal
or equitable title in any form whatsoever to any premises or part
thereof, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, or
who or which shall have charge, care or control of any lot, premises,
building, structure or part thereof; as owner or agent of the owner,
or as a fiduciary, trustee, receiver, guardian, lessee or mortgagee
in possession, regardless of how such possession was obtained. Any
person, group of persons or entity who or which is a lessee, sublessee
or assignee of a lessee of any part or all of any building, structure
or land shall be deemed to be a co-owner with the lessor for the purposes
of this section and shall have responsibility over the portion of
the premises so sublet, leased or assigned.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, right-of-way or multiples
thereof, including the buildings or structure thereon.
REFUSE or RUBBISH
All discarded, useless, unusable, unused or worthless solid
waste matter or materials, combustible or noncombustible, including
but not limited to garbage, trash, ashes, paper goods and products,
wrappings, cans, bottles, containers, yard clippings, garden waste,
debris, glass, boxes, crockery, wood, mineral matter, plastic, rubber,
leather, furniture, household goods, appliances, bedding, scrap lumber,
scrap metal, construction material, dead or rotting vegetation, tires,
abandoned, inoperative or unusable automobiles and vehicles, and solid
commercial or industrial waste.