§ 42-32. Definitions.

As used in this article:

Administrative fee shall refer to the city's minimum administrative fee of $150.00 that shall be assessed when the city abates or causes to be abated a nuisance. This fee shall not include the actual costs incurred in abating or causing to be abated a nuisance, but the administrative cost to the city of processing the abatement. Without amending this article, the city may impose an administrative fee of more than $150.00 if the city's cost of implementing this article is greater than $150.00.

Brush shall mean scrub vegetation or dense undergrowth.

Building official shall mean the building official of the City of Saginaw, or his designated representative.

City manager means the city manager or the manager's designated representative.

Code officer means each code officer and the building official of the City of Saginaw.

Costs shall mean the actual cost the city incurs in abating or causing to be abated a nuisance, including without limitation, the cost of mowing, weeding, removing objectionable rubbish, junk, unsightly, or unsanitary matter, etc.

Cultivated shall mean vegetation that is deliberately grown and currently and continuously maintained by the owner, occupant, or agent of the property.

Developed means a tract of land upon which a structure is situated.

Expenses shall mean the total of the administrative fee and costs incurred by the city in abating or causing to be abated a nuisance.

Garbage means and includes every accumulation of both animal and vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that is received from kitchens and also all decayable waste.

Hearing officer means the city manager of the city or the city manager's designated representative.

Junk means all worn out or discarded material, including but not limited to old iron or other metal, glass and cordage, plastic, machinery of any kind, tractors, refrigerators, stoves, parts of machinery or automobiles, any other household appliances, furniture, or old boats, which are not kept for ordinary use or for sale in the ordinary course of business, it being the intention to include in said term every solid substance or material of any kind which has been discarded or abandoned from such ordinary uses.

Litter means any wastepaper, used beverage or food container, rubbish, trash, or garbage not placed in a container.

Maintained shall mean watered, pruned, trimmed, treated, and controlled in such a manner as to enhance the use or enjoyment of one's property, without interfering with the enjoyment or use of neighboring property or public access.

Occupant or occupied by means and refers to any person, firm or corporation, or other entity, both public and private, claiming or having possessory control of any property.

Owner means any person, firm or corporation, or other entity, both public and private, claiming title of any property.

Person shall include a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, or corporation, or any other legal entity as well as an individual.

Refuse means an accumulation of worn out, used, broken, or rejected materials and includes garbage, litter, rubbish, yard waste and other decayable or nondecayable waste. It includes, but is not limited to, old barrels, old tires, tree and brush and grass trimmings and unused household items and appliances.

Rubbish means all loose and decayed material and dirt-like substances that attends use or decay, or which accumulates from buildings, storing or cleaning, trash, debris, rubble, stone or fragments of building materials.

Vegetation shall mean any tree, grass, weeds, shrubs, brush, bushes, or vines.

Weeds shall mean vegetation that because of its height is objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary, but excluding cultivated crops, shrubs, bushes, trees, flowers, and vines.

Yard waste means grass and brush trimmings, trees or tree limbs, hedge or shrub cuttings, leaves, weeds, vines or other decayable waste which is generated by maintaining a yard.

(Ord. No. 2013-01, § 1, 1-15-13)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.