For the purposes of this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Abandoned property”
means those objects which no one claims and which after a reasonable search and notice the chief of police can find no one to claim, or can find definite evidence some person has abandoned.
“Building inspector”
means the officer of the municipality charged with the enforcement of municipal building and construction codes.
“Fair market value”
means the highest price, described in terms of money, which the property would bring if exposed for sale for a reasonable time in the open market, with a seller, willing but not forced to sell, and a buyer, willing but not forced to buy, both being fully informed of all the purposes for which the property is best adapted or could be used.
“Land”
includes all real property and all rights in real property of whatever kind or nature and tide and submerged lands under the jurisdiction of the municipality.
“Mean high tide”
means the tidal datum plane of the average of all the high tides as would be established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and which in Sitka is 9.1.
“Mean high tide line”
means the intersection of the datum plane of mean high tide with the shore.
“Mean low tide”
means the tidal datum plane of the average of the low tides as established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which in Sitka is 1.4.
“Mean lower low tide.”
At any place subject to tidal influence shall be interpreted as the tidal datum plane of the average of the lower of the two low tides of each day as established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which in Sitka is zero tide.
“Personal property”
means only tangible personal property and that property which is not land or permanently attached to land and more particularly as defined in AS 29.71.800(16). However, for purposes of sale, items and fixtures attached to land shall be deemed personal property if intended to be removed from the land and items intended to become fixtures shall be considered personal property until so affixed.
“Public nuisance.”
Whatever annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, comfort, or repose of the public; offends public decency; interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous any street, highway, navigable lake or stream; or in any way renders the public insecure in life or property, is declared to be a “public nuisance.” Public nuisances shall include, but not be limited to, whatever is forbidden by any provision of this title.
“Reclaimed or constructed tide or contiguous submerged lands”
mean those lands resulting by purposeful filling of tide or contiguous submerged lands to an elevation above the extreme high tide line.
“Singular number.”
Singular number includes the plural.
“Submerged lands”
mean those lands covered by tidal waters between the line of mean low tide and seaward to a distance of three geographic miles or as may hereafter be properly claimed by the municipality.
“Tidelands”
means those lands which are periodically covered by tidal waters between the elevation of mean high tide and mean low tides.
“Tract of land”
means those parcels of land combined for convenience of survey or sale.
“Upland owner”
is the person who owns or holds a long-term lease to property immediately upland of the tideland’s parcel to be leased. For purposes of this definition, uplands may include other tideland upland of the parcel to be leased.
(S.G.C. 18.04.010; Ord. 83-556 § 4, 1983; Ord. 15-14 § 4, 2015)