For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context or meaning clearly indicates otherwise:
"Abate"means to repair, replace, remove, destroy, correct or otherwise remedy the condition in question by such means and in such a manner and to such an extent as the director's judgment determines is necessary in the interest of the general safety and welfare of the community.
"Costs of abatement"means the costs of any abatement action taken by the city to abate the violation using lawful means in the event that the property owner fails so to do. The term includes incidental expenses including, but not limited to, personnel costs, both direct and indirect and including attorney's fees; costs incurred in documenting the violation; hauling, storage and disposal expenses; and actual costs and expenses of the city in preparing notices, specifications and contracts, and in accomplishing and/or contracting and inspecting the work; the costs of any required printing and mailing; and costs of enforcement. This definition applies to costs incurred by the city using its own personnel or those incurred by the city using a contractor to perform the work.
"Director"means the director of community development or his or her designee.
"Garbage"means all putrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including but not limited to animal and vegetable wastes, regardless of whether the waste consists only of putrescible waste or is mixed with other materials. "Garbage" does not include the following:
(a) Recyclable refuse and yard waste as defined in this chapter;
White goods, meaning any large household appliance, including refrigerators, stoves, water heaters, etc.;
"Nuisance"is the unlawful performance of an act or omission to perform a duty, which act or omission either annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others, offends decency, or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage, any lake or navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway; or in any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property.
"Person"means any natural person, organization, corporation or partnership and their agents, representatives or assigns.
"Person responsible for the property"means any person, in actual or constructive possession of a property, including, but not limited to, an owner, occupant, agent, or property manager of a property under his or her control.
"Premises"means any building, lot, parcel, real estate, land or portion thereof whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
"Property owner"means the owner of the premises as shown in the records of the Snohomish County assessor and includes the "person responsible for the property." It includes any mortgagee or beneficiary of a deed of trust of a property for which the owner listed in the records of the Snohomish County assessor cannot be found.
"Public nuisance"is a nuisance that affects equally the rights of an entire community or neighborhood, although the extent of the damage may be unequal.
"Recyclable refuse"means:
(b) Uncoated mixed paper, including magazines, junk mail, phone books, bond or ledger grade, cardboard and paperboard packaging. (This does not include tissue paper, paper towels, frozen food containers, milk cartons or paper packaging combined with plastic, wax or foil.);
Recyclable plastic, glass, aluminum and other metal food and beverage containers.
"Trash"means materials that are not economically viable for further use, worthless, useless, or discarded such as bottles, broken glass, ashes (except human crematory ashes), waste paper, cans, the remains of anything broken down or destroyed including broken or discarded furniture, furnishings, appliances, household equipment and other similar items or other rubbish or debris.
"Yard waste"means plant material commonly created in the course of maintaining yards and gardens and through horticulture, gardening, landscaping, or similar activities. Yard waste includes, but is not limited to, grass clippings, leaves, branches, brush, weeds, flowers, roots, windfall fruit, and vegetable garden debris.
(Ord. 2046 § 1, 1995; Ord. 2873 § 2, 2011; Ord. 3029 § 1 (Exh. A), 2016)