As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
OCCUPANT
Any tenant, licensee, border, squatter, occupant, or other
person in partial or entire possession and control of the real property
and/or improvements regardless of whether or not by contract, express
permission, consent, knowledge or otherwise.
OWNER
Shall include:
A.
The owner of real property as defined under §
1-14 of the Village Code.
B.
The owner of real property immediately fronting
on a portion of any sidewalk, highway, street or road right-of-way
or other public premises owned by the Village, county or town and
maintained or controlled by the owner of the Village of Minoa adjacent
or contiguous to the owner's real property and located between such
sidewalk, highway, street or road right-of-way or other public premises
owned by the Village, county or town and maintained or controlled
by the owner, upon which portion any order pursuant to this chapter
is subject to.
C.
Any other person or entity who, alone or jointly
or severally with others, shall have legal or equitable title to any
premises, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof,
or shall have possession, charge, care or control of any dwelling
unit as owner or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix,
trustee, receiver or guardian of the estate or as a mortgagee in possession,
regardless of how such possession was obtained. Any person who is
a lessee, sublessee or assignee of any part or all of any lease, property,
dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to be a co-owner with the
lessor and shall have joint responsibility over the premises or portion
of the premises, leased sublet or assigned by said lessee, sublessee
or assignee.
D.
Contract not to alter responsibilities. The
respective obligations and responsibilities of the owner on one hand
and any occupant or other person described at § 136-19C
on the other shall not be altered or affected by any agreement or
contract by and between any of the aforesaid or between them and other
parties which allocates or reduces such liability or expenses. In
particular, it is the intent of this chapter that occupants be as
responsible and liable as an owner for the maintenance, repair and
condition of the real property.
PERSON
Any individual, society, club, firm, partnership, corporation,
limited liability company, trust, other entity or an association of
persons, and the singular number shall include the plural number.
RUBBISH
A.
Shall include the following:
(1)
Lumber, junk, trash, debris, building materials,
mounds or dirt or any other deleterious materials.
(2)
Any abandoned, discarded or unused objects or
equipment, such as automobile parts, furniture, stoves, refrigerators,
freezers, cans, containers or vehicle tires.
(3)
Any compost pile which is of such a nature as
to spread or harbor disease, emit unpleasant odors or gas or attract
rodents, vermin or other disease-carrying pests, animals or insets.
(4)
Any unsanitary matter or materials.
(5)
Trash, rubbish, garbage and weeds, as said terms are defined in Chapter
132, Solid Waste, of the Code of the Village of Minoa.
(6)
Tree trimmings, brush or shrubbery trimmings,
trees, brush or shrubbery or portions thereof severed from their roots
or uprooted trees, brush or shrubbery.
B.
However, for purposes of this article, the term "rubbish" shall not include any of the foregoing if stored in containers or plastic container bags conforming to the requirements of Chapter
132, Solid Waste, of the Code of the Village of Minoa or tied in bundles conforming to the requirements of said Chapter
132, or any landscaping materials temporarily assembled or stored for pickup or use subject to any applicable Village Code or other legal requirements.
STRUCTURE
An assembly of materials forming a construction framed of
component structural parts, which exists for any occupancy or use.