As used in this article, certain words and phrases are defined
in the following sections.
(Prior code § 5100)
"Apartment house" means a building, or portion of a building
or buildings, which is designed to be occupied or which is occupied
as the home or residence of three or more families living independently
of each other.
(Prior code § 5100 (a))
"Business" includes professions, trades and occupations, and
all and every kind of calling, whether carried on for profit or as
a livelihood or for obtaining income.
(Prior code § 5100 (b))
"Fixed place of business" means a place of business in the city
regularly kept open having a person of suitable age in charge thereof
during the hours customary to transact such business.
(Prior code § 5100 (c))
"Commercial use" means any use which includes as a part of its
operation sales of merchandise, goods, agricultural products or services
to the general public; except those uses which are conducted on residential
property by the residential property owner such as garage sales and
yard sales.
(Ord. 2159 § 1, 1991)
"Hotel, motel or roominghouse" means any lodginghouse, hotel,
motel, roominghouse, dormitory or public or private club containing
guest rooms for lodging strangers or travelers, advertising or held
out as a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished
to the public.
(Prior code § 5100 (d))
"License" means a business certificate or form issued by the
city to be displayed by the licensee.
(Prior code § 5100 (h))
"Person" includes all domestic and foreign corporations, associations,
syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships of every kind,
clubs, business or common law trusts, societies and individuals, transacting
and carrying on any business in the city as principal or through an
agent or employee, but shall exclude its employees.
(Prior code § 5100 (e))
"Public utility" means any persons furnishing the public with
communications, water, light, gas, heat, power, or other public services
subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission of the State.
(Prior code § 5100 (f))
"Street" means and includes every street, boulevard, avenue,
highway, alley or roadway within the city which has been or may hereafter
be indicated as such and opened to public use.
(Prior code § 5100 (g))
"Temporary commercial enterprises" means any activity involving
commercial use of property primarily engaged in the sale of agricultural
produce, including seasonal sales within the city of Westminster,
which continues for a period of sixty days or less.
(Ord. 2159 § 1, 1991)