Corning Municipal Code Ch. 8.02 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the words set out in this section shall have the following meanings:

A. Credentials. Proper credentials consist of any one of the following: city badge or city identification card.

B. "Garbage" includes all spoiled or waste food from a kitchen or market that is thrown away or any worthless, unnecessary or offensive matter.

C. "Grass, weeds or plants" includes grass, weeds or plants which, when mature, will attain such a large growth as to become a fire menace when dry, or which are otherwise noxious or dangerous.

D. "Grass, weeds, plants, rubbish and rubble disposal" means upon removal, the grass, weeds or plants, rubbish and rubble shall be disposed of legally and shall not be placed, deposited or dumped in the public streets, or placed, deposited or dumped between the property line and the curb line.

E. "Litter" means all improperly discarded waste material, including, but not limited to, convenience food, beverage and other product packages or containers constructed of steel, aluminum, glass, paper, plastic and other natural and synthetic materials, thrown on or deposited on the lands and waters of the city, but not including the properly discarded waste of the primary processing of agriculture, mining, logging, sawmilling or manufacturing.

F. "Nuisance" including anything which is injurious to human health or is indecent or offensive to the senses and interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, and affects at the same time the entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of annoyance or damage inflicted upon the individual may be unequal. The terms "nuisance" and "public nuisance" shall be synonymous and either term wherever used shall have the same meaning as the other term.

G. "Owner" means the legal owner of real property fronting on any street and as used in this title the singular includes the plural, and includes an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a partnership, and the lessees, trustees, agents, employees, servants and representatives of any such owner.

H. "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, receiver, limited liability company, trust, estate, cooperative, association or any other entity.

I. "Premises" includes a tract or parcel of land with or without habitable buildings or uninhabitable structures.

J. Prima Facie Proof From Status of Assessment Rolls. Proof of the assessment of any real property, the subject of this title, to any person or legal entity on the official assessor's rolls shall constitute prima facie evidence that said person or legal entity to whom said property is so assessed is the legal owner thereof.

K. "Public street" or "streets" means all roads, streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways and public right-of-way, or any portion thereof, of the city.

L. Removal or Destruction of Noxious or Dangerous Grass, Weeds or Plants. Every owner of real property within the corporate limits of the city of Corning shall remove and destroy all grass, weeds or plants as defined in Section 8.06.100 from said real property and from in front of said real property from the property line thereof to the curb line of the street upon which said real property abuts.

M. "Removal of rubbish" means every owner of real property within the corporate limits of the city of Corning shall keep such real property free and clear of all rubbish, including the real property in front of the same, from the property line thereof to the curb line of the street.

N. "Removal of rubble" means every owner of real property within the corporate limits of the city of Corning shall keep such real property free and clear of all rubble.

O. "Rubbish" means all putrescible and nonputrescible, combustible and noncombustible solid waste, including garbage, plastics, refuse, ashes, dead animals, rubber by-products, abandoned or no longer used automobiles or parts of automobiles, junk, worthless and useless articles, which are in such a state or in such quantity as to be unsightly, against general welfare, unhealthful, dangerous to persons, or so as to interfere with the abatement of weeds.

P. Rubble. Any rubble, residue, structure or part or portions of a structure remaining after fire damage to or the demolition or partial demolition of any building or structure in the city.

Q. "Solid waste" means and includes all solid or semisolid, putrescible and nonputresicble discarded material, including garbage, rubbish and rubble as defined in Chapter 8.02 of this code.

R. "Vector" includes any insect or other arthropod, rodent or other animal capable of transmitting the causative agents of human disease or disrupting the normal enjoyment of life by adversely affecting the public health and well being.

(Ord. 578 §2(1)(part), (8) and (9), 1998; Ord. 577 (part), 1997; Ord. 535 §1(part), 1993).