As used in this article, the words and terms
used herein are defined as follows:
FLOATING HOME
Any vessel in fact used, designed or occupied as a permanent
dwelling unit, business office or source of any occupation, or for
any private or social club of whatever nature, including but not limited
to a structure constructed upon a barge primarily immobile and out
of navigation which functions substantially as a land structure while
the same is moored or docked in or on Town waterways within the Town
of Southold, whether such vessel is self-propelled or not, and whose
volume coefficient is greater than 3,000 square feet. Volume coefficient
is a ratio of the habitable space of a vessel measured in cubic feet
and the draft of a vessel measured in feet of depth.
FLOATING HOME MARINA
Any plot, lot, block or site within the Town of Southold
upon which a marina is operated, where one or more sites or locations
are rented or are offered for rent, sold or offered for sale or otherwise
used or offered for use for the location of floating homes.
MARINA
Any dock, pier or other facility operated for profit, or
to which public patronage is invited, providing moorings, dockage
or other marine services primarily for power and sailing yachts, launches
or other watercraft, other than floating homes, and which may also
be capable of removing any and all watercrafts moored or docked within
the marina from the water for repair and/or storage.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, copartnership, association,
society or any other combination of individuals.
TOWN WATERS
All tidal waters bordering on or within the Town of Southold,
including but not limited to bays, sounds, creeks, estuaries, inlets
and all tributaries thereof, and extending seaward to a point 100
feet from the mean high-water line.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section
or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder of this article, but shall be confined
in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
thereof directly involved in the litigation in which such judgment
shall have been rendered.