For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a)Accumulated dirt means any artificial accumulation of earth of a size, shape, or composition to constitute a harborage or a hazard to public health or safety.
(b)Building, unless it is apparent from the context that another meaning is intended, means a “structure,” and the words “building” and “structure” shall mean any construction, the arrangement of which may affect the health, safety, or general welfare of man.
(c)Combustible rubbish means paper, rags, packing materials, cartons, boxes, sawdust, wood shavings, scrap lumber, scrap trimmings, and other waste materials of combustible nature.
(d)Garbage means all animal and vegetable waste matter resulting from the preparation, consumption, storing, processing, manufacturing or distribution of food, animal feed, or other animal or vegetable matter.
(e)Incidental expenses means administrative overhead, the cost of printing, advertising, and/or posting provided for in this chapter, the compensation of the person appointed by the city to take charge of and supervise any of the work authorized under this chapter, the expenses of preparing and typing the resolutions, notices and other papers, and hearings and other proceedings for such work and any other expenses incidental to the completion and inspection of the work.
(f)Noncombustible rubbish means broken crockery, glass, ashes, cinders, bottles, cans, wire and other discarded objects of metal and glass, and other waste materials of a noncombustible and nonputrescible nature.
(g)Possess means control, own, lease, occupy, possess, or have charge over.
(h)Premises means any land, place, building, site, facility, or location.
(i)Public nuisance means dangerous, injurious, offensive, or deleterious to neighboring property, to the public, or to the public welfare.
(j)Public street means any public street, way, place, alley, sidewalk, park, square, plaza or any other similar public property owned or controlled by the City or dedicated to the public for street or public purposes.
(k)Weeds means any plants which bear seeds that are disseminated by the wind, any brush or plants that attain such large growth as to become, when dry, a fire menace to adjacent improved property; plants that are otherwise noxious or dangerous; and dry grass, brush, or other flammable material which endangers the public safety by creating a fire hazard. (Ord. No. 1085, § 3, Ex. A.)
