Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 16.04 Definitions

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The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.

B.

The masculine gender includes the feminine.

C.

The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 §§ 108, 109 and 110, 1940.)

"Base course" means that portion of the highway located between the pavement and the native soil.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 122, 1940.)

"Commissioner" means the road commissioner of the county of Los Angeles or their designee. Commissioner may also be referred to as the "director of public works" or "director" in this Chapter.

(Ord. 2024-0003 § 22, 2024; Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967; Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 112, 1940.)

"County" means the county of Los Angeles, state of California.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 111, 1940.)

"Driveway" means that portion of the road right-of-way between the property line and curb, or between the property line and the pavement if no curb exists, where vehicles enter or leave the highway onto adjacent property.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 119, 1940.)

"Encroachment" means and includes any obstruction, tower, pole, pole line, pipe, fence, wire, cable, conduit, stand or building, or any structure or object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned in this Division 1, which is placed in, along, under, over or across the highway. This section does not apply to the temporary use of the highway for ordinary maintenance of any existing authorized or permitted encroachment; nor to the suspension or stringing on existing pole lines of additional cables, wires, transmission lines, conduits or service connections solely for telephone or electric power purposes.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 114, 1940.)

"Facilities" or "pipelines," as used in subsection A3 of Section 16.06.010, Sections 16.06.110 through 16.06.190, 16.18.010 through 16.18.090, 16.18.110, 16.18.120, 16.18.130 and 16.18.160 of this Division 1, means pipes, pipelines, valves, tanks, mains, service lines, conduits, duct banks, cables, wires, poles, tunnels, obstructions and other apparatus, both aerial and underground.

(Ord. 12038 § 1, 1979: Ord. 11581 § 2 (part), 1977: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 127.2, 1940.)

"Hazardous substance" means one having the potential for an immediate disaster, such as, but not limited to, gasoline, fuel oil, butane, propane, chemicals, or chlorine, and natural gas transported at pressures greater than 60 psi; and, for the purposes of Division 1 of Title 16, electrical facilities shall comply with the requirements applicable to hazardous substances.

(Ord. 85-0207 § 1, 1985: Ord. 11581 § 2 (part), 1977: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 127.1, 1940.)

"Height" means that dimension measured from the level surface upon which the vehicle stands to the highest protrusion in a vertical line.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 117, 1940.)

"Highway" means any public highway, public street, public way or public place in the unincorporated territory of the county, either owned by the county or dedicated to the public for the purpose of travel. The term includes all or any part of the entire width of right-of-way, and above and below the same, whether or not such entire area is actually used for highway purposes.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 113, 1940.)

"Load" means any object or thing which, when transported by a vehicle or combination of vehicles over, upon, along or across any highway, would be required to have a special permit in accordance with provisions of the Vehicle Code, and includes but is not limited to any house, vessel, machine, equipment, transformer, tree, girder, boat or airplane.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 118, 1940.)

"Moving contractor" means any person who, for himself or for another, moves or causes to be moved any load over, upon, along or across any highway.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 125, 1940.)

"Native soil" means the compacted native material.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 123, 1940.)

"News rack" means any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit or other dispenser installed, used or maintained for the display and sale of newspapers or news periodicals.

(Ord. 10816 § 2, 1974: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 145, 1940.)

"One-call notification system" or "system" means an association providing for mutual receipt of notification of construction activities in the unincorporated territory of Los Angeles County.

(Ord. 12038 § 2, 1979: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 127.4, 1940.)

"Overhead structure" means any structure other than franchise utility poles and their facilities extending over the dedicated portion of a highway, including canopies but excluding such projections from buildings as are enumerated in Ordinance 2225, the "Building Code," set out in Title 26 of this code.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 141, 1940.)

"Pavement" means the surfaced portion of the highway which is composed of various size aggregates mixed with portland cement and/or asphaltic compounds.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 121, 1940.)

"Person" includes any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, any district, any city, any county including this county, and all departments and bureaus thereof except the road department of this county.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 120, 1940.)

"Public" means any person as defined by this Division 1 other than the Los Angeles County road department and includes the United States and this state.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 124, 1940.)

"Roadway" means that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.

(Ord. 11581 § 2 (part), 1977: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 127.3, 1940.)

"Section" means a section of the ordinance codified in Division 1 of Title 16, unless some other ordinance or statute is specifically mentioned.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 107, 1940.)

"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 115, 1940.)

"Vehicle" means a vehicle or combination of vehicles as described in the Vehicle Code which:

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Whether laden or unladen is required by the Vehicle Code to have a special permit to be on any highway; or

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Is so laden that it is required to have such special permit.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 126, 1940.)

"Vehicle Code" means the state of California Vehicle Code in effect at the time of issuance of the permit.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 127, 1940.)

"Width" means that dimension measured at right angles to the anterior-posterior axis of the conveyance upon which the load or portion thereof is, or is to be, loaded or moved, or to the median line of the highway over which the same is being or is to be moved.

(Ord. 9349 § 1 (part), 1967: Ord. 3597 Ch. 1 § 116, 1940.)