A. “Alley” means a public way, paved or unpaved, which is intended to provide or which provides a roadway for vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties and is generally located to the rear or side of those properties, but not including such a public way in its natural and undeveloped state which cannot be used by vehicles.

B. “Director” means the director of public works or his or her designee or any designated alternate who is empowered by ordinance or by the mayor to enforce this chapter including assigned code enforcement officials.

C. “Fire hazard” means vegetation which is dry and combustible, including but not limited to weeds, grass or clippings, dead bushes or trees or their parts, and other combustible vegetative materials.

D. “Health hazard” means vegetation or refuse providing a harborage for rats or other rodents (excluding chipmunks and squirrels), rodent runs and habitats; vegetation which is poisonous or noxious, including but not limited to poison ivy, poison oak, poison hemlock, poison sumac and nightshade; vegetation which creates a danger of contamination or disease; and vegetation which is infested with caterpillars or other horticultural pests.

E. “Occupant” means any person occupying or having possession of property or any portion thereof.

F. “Owner” means any person who, alone or with others, has title or interest in property with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and including any person who as agent, or as executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of an estate, has charge, care or control of any property.

G. “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, unincorporated or incorporated association, marital community, joint venture, governmental entity, or other entity or group of persons however organized.

H. “Planting strip” means that part of a street right-of-way between the abutting property line and the curb or traveled portion of the street exclusive of any sidewalk.

I. “Property” means a specific parcel or parcels, platted or unplatted, of land or real estate.

J. “Public right-of-way” means any alley, street, planting strip and public way, including sidewalks, utilized for and related to pedestrians and vehicular traffic.

K. “Safety hazard” means vegetation which creates a defective condition on any street, sidewalk, or alley or vegetation which overhangs the street, sidewalk, or alley in such a way as to impede the free and full use of the street, sidewalk, or alley, and vegetation which obstructs the vision of drivers such that traffic regulation signs or the view of oncoming traffic is obstructed at a distance of fifteen feet or closer from the edge of the pavement or curb, and vegetation which creates injury to or the opportunity or risk for injury to passersby or the general public.

L. “Sidewalk” means that property between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a street and the adjacent property, set aside and intended for the use of pedestrians.

M. “Street” means a public right-of-way, used for public travel.

N. “Vegetation” means trees, shrubs, grass, weeds, bushes, vines, and other plant materials, including but not limited to clippings, fallen leaves, fruit or branches. (Ord. 832 § 1, 1997).