Walnut Creek Municipal Code Art. 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain terms and words are defined as follows:

a.

Citing Officer

shall mean the Public Services Director, Community Development Director, Senior Engineer, Chief Building Official, Building Inspection Supervisor, Engineering Inspection Supervisor, Traffic Engineer, and Code Enforcement Officers.

b.

Division Head

shall mean the Planning Manager, the Transportation Administrator, the City Engineer, and the Chief Building Official and any other position of comparable responsibility within the organization that may be created from time to time. As used herein, the term "division head" shall include the authorized representatives of such division head.

c.

Hearing Examiner

shall mean the City Manager or the authorized representative of the City Manager, who shall act as hearing examiner in order to hear cases brought by the division head under the provisions of this chapter.

d.

Interest of Record

shall mean any mortgage or deed of trust or other lien or other encumbrance of record, any lease of record, and any other state of legal interests of record in the premises, which interest of record is shown on the latest equalized assessment role of Contra Costa County.

e.

Maintenance of Nuisance

shall include the creation, continuance, and/or permitting of a nuisance.

f.

Owner

shall mean the owner or owners of record of real property as shown on the latest equalized assessment role of Contra Costa County, or as otherwise known to the responsible Division Head by more recent and reliable information.

g.

Premises

shall mean any real property or improvements on real property.

h.

Vector

shall mean any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, rodents, and other vertebrates.

(§ 1, Ord. 1690, eff. 8/19/1988; § 2, Ord. 1985, eff. 12/20/2001; § 1, Ord. 2013, eff. 5/1/2003)