Long Beach Municipal Code Art. I Definitions

As used in this Chapter 5.16, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

A. "Auto repair shop" means any shop, building, room, place or space wherein, for compensation, any automobile, other motor vehicle, or any parts thereof, are repaired, remodeled, overhauled, reconditioned, or painted.

B. "Automobile dealer" means and includes any person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling, offering to buy or offering to sell, consigned to be sold or otherwise dealing in new or used motor vehicles, or both, as the term "motor vehicle" is defined in the State Vehicle Code.

C. "Automobile wrecking" means the principal use of any premises for the dismantling, demolition or crushing of any automotive vehicle, or for the storage of abandoned or irreparably damaged vehicles.

D. "Public garage" means and includes a room, building or other structure where automobiles are kept or stored by the public, and where a charge is made for such storage or keeping of automobiles.

E. "Valet parking" means the service of parking cars for remuneration.

F. "Car rental agency" means any business involving the rental, leasing, or repossession or transportation of new or used vehicles for rental or leasing.

(ORD-07-0045 § 1, 2007; Ord. C-6260 § 1 (part), 1986)