This Chapter
210 shall be known as the "Property Maintenance Law of the Town of Tully."
For purposes of this Chapter
210:
OWNER
Includes the following:
A.
The owner of the real property upon which any
brush, grass or rubbish ordered cut, trimmed or removed pursuant to
this chapter is located or upon which any poisonous shrubs or weeks
ordered sprayed with herbicides, cut, trimmed, removed or destroyed
are located.
B.
The owner of real property immediately fronting
on a portion of any highway, street or road of the Town of Tully,
upon which portion any rubbish ordered removed pursuant to this chapter
is located.
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 person described in Subsection
C 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 relieves such liability or expenses.
PERSON
Includes 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.
Includes 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)
Yard and garden waste and solid waste, as said terms are defined in Chapter
234, Solid Waste, of the Code of the Town of Tully.
(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 chapter, the term "rubbish" shall not include any of the foregoing if stored in containers or plastic container bags conforming to the requirements of Chapter
234, Solid Waste, of the Code of the Town of Tully.
STRUCTURE
An assembly of materials forming a construction framed of
component structural parts, which exists for any occupancy or use.